Gone Girl Lesson Plan

Students should read from Chapter 46: “Amy Elliott Dunne: Ten Days Gone” to Chapter 64: “Amy Elliott Dunne: Ten Months, Two Weeks, Six Days After the Return.” This portion of text contains a lot of very short chapters.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.1

4. 4

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.3

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Chapter 46: “Amy Elliott...