We Need New Names Lesson Plan

Students read How They Lived, My America, and Writing on the Wall

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.C

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3

4. 4

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.4

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

How They Lived

This is the final chapter with the alternative narrator, and it is written in the first person plural (therefore, in this summary, the pronoun "they" is employed to...