Out Of The Dust Litplan Teacher Pack (print Copy) [Perfect Paperback]

Grades 8-10. Essentially a complete teacher's manual for the book, this LitPlan Teacher Pack includes lesson plans and reproducible resource materials for Out of the Dust. It includes: 24 Daily Lessons Short answer study questions Multiple choice quiz questions Vocabulary worksheets for each reading assignment 3 detailed writing assignments Individual and group activities Critical thinking discussion questions 5 unit tests (2 short answer, 2 multiple choice, 1 advanced) Evaluation forms Review puzzles & games Bulletin board ideas Reproducible student materials And more! A Note About A Few Of The Many Different Assignments Included: There are three writing assignments in this unit, each with the purpose of informing, persuading, or expressing personal opinions. The detailed writing assignment sheets guide students through the assignments. The first assignment, in Lesson Five, asks students to write from personal experience. They may write about their own lives, mirroring the kinds of information conveyed by Billie Jo Kelby in the novel, or they may write about Billie Jo herself, explaining why they would or would not like to have Billie Jo as their close friend. The second writing assignment, in Lesson Ten, asks that students write to inform. Here students have an opportunity to choose something that they do well and then to explain to an audience how to do the activity. The third assignment requires the students to exercise judgment, to set criteria for what is good and what is bad in their opinion, and then to argue that Out of the Dust is either a good or a bad book. The major class project is optional. Project Modern Farming is an attempt to get students to move beyond the knowledge they acquire through reading the novel to gain firsthand understanding of the situation faced by farmers in America today. The project is geared to having students discover concerns that need addressing and then to address those concerns in meaningful ways.lS+