We Lesson Plan

Discussion: On Tyranny

Kind of Activity:

Group Discussion

Objective:

Students will broaden their knowledge about the themes of the text.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.3 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.4 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.6

Structure:

This activity has two parts. In the first part, students should organize themselves into groups of 2-3 people. Then, the teacher should assign a different section from Timothy Snyder's short book On Tyranny to each group (if the class size is too small to assign each of the 20 sections, they can consider assigning...