Day 2

The Overstory Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read "Roots": Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly through Olivia Vandergriff

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    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. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.11-12.1
    Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to important distinctions the author makes and to any gaps or inconsistencies in the account.

  3. 3

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.1
    Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as...

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