A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah is a hit with high school students! This comprehensive unit plan includes lots of practical documents like vocabulary practice, classroom assignments, a vocabulary quiz, an essay assignment, guided notes, Socratic seminar questions, and test questions. However, it also includes supplemental readings, films, music, poetry, and even a radio essay designed to get students to question how Beah's lessons of redemption and rehabilitation might apply to situations such a