Day 1

Citizen: An American Lyric Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read Section I.

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3

  3. 3

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3

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

Section I

Citizen begins with an unnamed “you” sitting at home alone, too tired to be on her phone or laptop. Her mind begins to wander and she thinks of a classmate, whose name she cannot remember, who asked to cheat off of her in class. Sister Evelyn, the...

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