After the Storm Lesson Plan Collection
Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12
NOTE TO EDUCATORS:
This collection of lesson plans, provided by our partner Read to Lead, support your student before, during, and after playing the game After the Storm.
On the Job Training: What Does it Take to be the Boss?
Lesson Objective: Students define effective and ineffective attributes of an individual in a leadership position. (accompanying worksheet)
Mini-Lesson: Hurricanes
Lesson Objective: Students identify and describe important facts about hurricanes.
Mini-Lesson: What Does an Editor-In-Chief Do?
Lesson Objective: Students learn about the responsibilities this job entails.
Lesson Plan Common Core State Standards Alignments
Grade: K, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.6
Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when encountering an unknown term important to comprehension or expression.
Grade: K, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
Grade: K, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4
Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
Grade: K, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
