"The Treasure of Lemon Brown" - Reading Comprehension Short Story Mapping
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Grade Levels
5th - 9th
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSRL.6.1
CCSSRL.6.2
CCSSRL.6.3
CCSSRL.6.4
CCSSRL.6.5
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Pages
10 pages
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In this bundle, you will receive lesson plans for 7 short stories all written by Black authors. With each product, there are detailed literary analyses, reading questions, answer keys, and accommodating activities. Diversify the literature in your classroom and use these stories to broaden your studPrice $10.99Original Price $13.93Save $2.94
Description
“The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers is a coming of age story where an adolescent boy learns a valuable lesson about the importance of family from an unlikely source. It is set in an urban neighborhood in Harlem, New York after the first World War.
This product includes:
- An activating reading strategy— make predictions
- Story mapping graphic organizer—featuring a focus on setting, conflict, theme, and characters
- Figurative language chart and analysis — featuring a focus on hyperbole, simile, idiom, onomatopoeia, and personification
- Short story analysis/reading comprehension questions — featuring a focus on inferences, imagery, character motivations, resolutions, and symbolism
- Constructed response question for students to reflect on the short story using their own personal experience
- Answer keys
This resource includes both ready-to-print (PDF) and editable (word document) copies.
Walter Dean Myers is an African American author known for writing young adult literature, such as the novel Monster. The short story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” would be great practice for students to analyze literature during Black History Month. The full text can be found online.
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Total Pages
10 pages
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Teaching Duration
3 days
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRL.6.1
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSSRL.6.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
CCSSRL.6.3
Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
CCSSRL.6.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
CCSSRL.6.5
Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
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