Day 5

A Long Way Gone Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    The Power of Words: Defining the Various Groups of Displaced People

    Kind of Activity:

    Classwide Discussion

    Objective:

    Students will work together to better understand the various definitions and meanings applied to displaced people.

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).

    Structure:

    Over the course of the 1990s, roughly half a million Sierra Leonean's fled their country to...

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