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Setting in "Hills Like White Elephants" Lesson PlanSetting in "Hills Like White Elephants" Lesson Plan
Publisher
Maine Content Literacy Project
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Grade
9th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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Setting in "Hills Like White Elephants"

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This Setting in "Hills Like White Elephants" lesson plan also includes:
  • Unit Overview
  • The Short Story - Literacy Support: Reciprocal Teaching
  • Hemingway Biographical Connections
  • Hills Like White Elephants Setting Explanation
  • Short Story Unit Final Assessment
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Continue your study of the short story with the next lesson in this fourteen-lesson series. After wrapping up a study of "Hills Like White Elephants" through a quiz and discussion of the setting, learners are introduced to the final assessment for the unit. The class then takes a trip to the library to get some research tips.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

setting, ernest hemingway, short stories

Additional Tags

english language arts

Classroom Considerations

  • See the previous two lessons in this series for the lead-up to this plan
  • The quiz referred to in the plan is not included; however, you could create your own quiz with a few questions
  • If you plan to use the library for research (as is suggested here), you will likely need to coordinate a visit to your school library
  • The blog site linked on in the plan doesn't seem to work, but there are plenty of other blogging options out there, like Kidblog

Pros

  • Includes information about Ernest Hemingway referenced in the lesson plan procedures as well as a detailed document that explains the assessments for this unit

Cons

  • Some materials are missing; see the Teaching Tips for more about this and some suggestions for how to make it work

Common Core

RL.9-10.10a RL.11-12.10a

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