Red Sky at Morning

Ten lessons have students participate in small-group work, creative writing, analytical writing, group work, analysis of tone, and poetry writing. They discuss tone of the novel and of several paintings, perform skits, compare settings, analyze the coming-of-age process, examine the role of women and the South in light of a Civil War poem, and compare two poems. The unit offers a variety of optional activities, including listening to popular music of the 1940s, letter writing, and research writing. Grades 9-12. (CFL611)