White Teeth Lesson Plan

Continuing the Novel

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to use textual support to anchor a creative writing project.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.3

Structure:

In the final page of the novel, Zadie Smith to offer a definitive resolution She offers readers a number of possible outcomes for many of the characters but eschews making any of them final. Students should choose a character from the novel and write the epilogue for that character that Smith refuses to write. Students may choose to use the potential outcome that Zadie Smith offers as an option and fill it in with greater detail or they may come up with an...