A Long Way Gone Lesson Plan

The Art of the Parable

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to edit and alter their existing work to create a new story.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4

Structure:

On multiple occasions in A Long Way Gone, Beah shares with the reader parables that he learned as a young boy living in Africa. While lost in the forest, Beah mentions the story his grandmother shared of the wild boar and the hunter. Later in A Long Way Gone, Beah's friend Musa recounts his version of the Bra Spider, a popular tale told to the children of Sierra Leone. Each story uses fictional characters and situations to teach a moral lesson to the...