Kitchen Lesson Plan

Yoshimoto's Biography

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will be able to understand the influence of Yoshimoto's life on her fiction

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.8, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1.A

Structure:

This activity will help students to understand the influence of Yoshimoto's life on her fiction using a range of media and technological tools.

As homework the night before, the students should have researched Yoshimoto's biography, including both secondary biographies and primary sources. They should have collected at least five sources and written a succinct paragraph describing each source. The sources can either be printed...