Atonement Lesson Plan

Read the epilogue, "London: 1999."

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.3

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.1

4. 4

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6

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

London, 1999

An elderly Briony is contemplating the medical diagnosis of vascular dementia that she received on the previous day. Within a few years, she will be unable to remember or recognize much of her...