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A Handful of Dates Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

For this section, students should read all of Tayeb Salih's "A Handful of Dates".

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.4

    Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.6

    Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.

  3. 3

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.7

    Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that...

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Study Guide for A Handful of Dates

A Handful of Dates study guide contains a biography of Tayeb Salih, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

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Essays for A Handful of Dates

A Handful of Dates essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of A Handful of Dates by Tayeb Salih.