Into the Wild Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Plans, Lessons & Activities

This 46-page Into the Wild Unit Plan includes detailed teaching plans along with numerous links to inspire your ninth to twelfth grade students to read Jon Krakauer's extraordinary book. All of the literary analysis activities and teaching ideas are aligned with the Common Core Standards. A plethora of character and plot analysis activities and four open-ended writing forms fuel students' interest in Chris McCandless's Alaskan odyssey. Teachers may use the digitally enhanced or PDF formats to meet their students learning needs.

Each Common Core Anchor Standard is cited with the number and text, and shows the activity (-ies) that address that specific benchmark. The Bloom's Taxonomy skills utilized in this unit are also clarified.

The four pages of Teacher Notes and Teaching Suggestions offer a day by day teaching agenda that explains what to teach and when. Essay topics and a good deal of expository and creative writing activities, including ten short answer questions, ten essay topics and six projects will hook students' interest, engage their thinking and increase their writing skills.

As always, this activity- PDF version- may be downloaded and printed for classroom use. Also, an Easel Activity is ready to be used for Google Classroom. Teachers may choose to add an interactive layer of their own for digital use by clicking on the red "Open in Easel" rectangle on the product's page.

Download the "What I Want to Know" activity used in this unit plan, from the FREEBIES category, Reading Comprehension & Writing – What do I Know? How Do I Know It?

Check out this corresponding Into the Wild PowerPoint to enhance your lessons

Into the Wild PowerPoint

Do you want to design lessons for another text - fiction or non-fiction? check out these two teacher resources that will save you time but will deliver challenging lessons and activities:

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