Short story by Jhumpa Lahiri, found in Interpreter of Maladies
Unit’s Essential Question: How do we engage with others while staying true to ourselves? (taken from HMH textbook)
Unit Focuses: in-groups and out-groups
Paired with: excerpt from “By Any Other Name” by Santha Rama Rau (taken from the textbook I had to teach from, Into Reading 10th Grade) and other texts in Unit 1
Lesson Plan Resources:
- Reading Questions
- Socratic Seminar: Essential Question, Instructions & Rubric (thank you to my cooperating teacher, Sara Jones at UHS)
- In-groups video explanation
- lesson plan:
- taught over 2 days
- class period 1: in-group video + independent reading
- HW: finish reading + reading questions
- class period 2: Socratic seminar discussion
taught Fall 2020 in English 2 Honors (10th grade)
posted 2/27/2021
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