Learners can chart what they know, what they would like to know, how they plan to learn, and what they have learned from Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Using questions about women's rights, kids study the themes of the novel and think more critically about their own learning.

Concepts

the color purple, reading comprehension strategies, women's rights

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the questions about women's rights to frame your novel unit
• Have kids complete research in a computer lab to help them learn about the ways that women's rights have changed since the time period of the novel

Classroom Considerations

• Lesson plan is based on women's suffrage, which is loosely related to the novel's plot, but it could be more effective to discuss women's rights as a whole

Pros

• Provides interesting ideas for reading comprehension techniques throughout the novel unit

Cons

• None