About This Lesson
These lessons are based on and support McGraw-Hill's StudySync programs. All materials are included in the lesson plans.
From StudySync "Divided We Fall":This unit offers a wide variety of literature for your students to explore these questions while also exploring texts in the unit’s genre focus, fiction. The classic short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, the short story “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier, and the short story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” serve as examples of the genre focus. Selections such as the poem “Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question” by Diane Burns, the memoir “The Future in My Arms” by Edwidge Danticat, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech allow students to read across genres.Students will begin this unit as readers, and they will finish as writers, as they apply what they have learned about story elements to their own narrative writing projects.
