Day 1

Night Sky with Exit Wounds Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read the first six poems in the book: "Threshold," "Telemachus," "Trojan," "Aubade with Burning City," "A Little Closer to the Edge," and "Immigrant Haibun."

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.5
    Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.4
    Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

  3. 3

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.5
    Develop and...

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