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The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories Lesson Plan

Bringing in Technology

-For the Day 2 classroom activity, "Into the Shadows with 'The Furnished Room'", students will select an online platform and build a mock profile, account, blog or vlog with that platform as if they were one of the characters from the story.

-In the Day 2 classroom activity, "Chekhov's Gun: A Collaborative Writing Exercise", groups of students will use a document sharing platform such as Google Docs to write four short-short stories together.

-For the first Day 3 homework assignment, students will watch a clip from the 1990 movie Home Alone and compare the characters with the characters from "The Ransom of Red Chief".

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