Day 5

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read Chapters 14 and 15 ("An American Surprise" and "The Drum").

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.2
    Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.6
    Analyze a case in which grasping a point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).

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