How a story is built: High school reading & writing
Literary analysis: narrator, structure, imagery and symbol. A free High school lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: literary analysis: narrator, structure, imagery and symbol.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: Why did the writer build it this way?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (15 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: how a story is built.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner or a small group the idea in their own words.
Practise (20 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Read: Read a classic (https://peabody.kids/library/classics)
- Play: Literary terms (https://peabody.kids/words/c8-lit-1)
- Play: Poetry and drama (https://peabody.kids/words/c7-lit-2)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about how a story is built, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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