Introducing Literary
Social Commentary to Ninth Graders
Through M.T. Andersons
Young Adult Novel, Feed
In retrospection, I believe this unit
plan could be very useful, but is too fast-paced toward the end. The lesson plan as a whole could be very
effective in practice if it were stretched out over more time. I’m excited about the “detective notebook”
assignment introduced on Day 1 and carried throughout. I’m thinking about following this unit with a
larger writing project that would give students the opportunity to use the
observations they made with their detective notebooks in a form of
beginner-literary analysis.
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