Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Lesson plans and learning activities

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Biography and Background

Biography, bibliography, video clips, and transcripts.

Biography and list of awards, titles.

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Lesson Plans and Learning Activities

A collection of reading strategies to support this book, including an anticipation guide, a guided imagery activity, a list of vocabulary words, and others.

Resources shared here include a unit plan, a biopoem template, a KWHL chart, discussion questions, questions based on Bloom's Taxonomy, and a rationale for using the novel in the classroom.

Timeline and handouts: anticipation guide, literature circle questions, reading activity, structure for writing a literary analysis.

Very thorough unit plan/curriculum guide for 8th graders. Addresses setting, characterization, plot structure, context clues, irony. Includes printables: anticipation guide, writing activities, assessments, graphic organizers. Incorporates bellwork, exit slips, Cornell notes, cooperative learning strategies. Word processor required; 250 pages. (Consider saving a copy and printing only the parts you need.)

This digital booktalk (1:08) can serve as a prereading activity.

Students use Twitter extensively as they read, compare and contrast the novel with the play Twelve Angry Men , and create a multigenre project. 18 pages; Adobe Reader required.

This printable handout requires MS-Word or compatible application for access.

Students examine due process of law and assess the issues of authority, privacy, responsibility, and justice. Good unit to pair with social studies. 6 pages; Adobe Reader required.

Students compare and contrast Monster with Avi's Nothing But the Truth .