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Home: The Ties That Bind Lesson Plan

Home: The Ties That Bind Lesson Plan

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Home: The Ties That Bind

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Students read two novels, The Human Comedy and A Separate Peace and an autobiographical memoir, Farewell to Manzanar. They focus on the difficulties faced by the teenage protagonists in order to set up a connection between adolescence and war.

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7th - 9th

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