Throughout the novel, there are depictions of animal abuse that can be disturbing for some young readers. Be sensitive to any students' discomfort and remind the class that Black Beauty greatly helped to change animal rights laws.
The thought questions in this lesson plan provide material and ideas that students can use to write short original essays and to develop their powers of analysis. The questions provided for the final paper are most suitable for student essays. For the sake of improving students'' written expression, teachers should encourage students to write on topics that have been discussed in class, this time in the more formal writing style expected in a literary essay. At...
