The Beau Catcher Short Story Lesson

Total Pages: 25 pages
Answer Key: Included with rubric
Teaching Duration: N/A
File Size: 6 MB
File Type: Zip

The Beau Catcher Short Story Lesson | PDF & Digital Formats: This short story lesson on "The Beau Catcher" by Frederick Laing focuses on literary elements of plot, character, setting, theme, and conflict as well as these literary devices: similes, metaphors, symbols, and foreshadowing. Use this lesson to introduce or review literary elements and literary devices with your students.

• This resource contains individual PDFs of student pages to assist with online learning i.e. Google Classroom™. The unit also comes with Google Slides™ versions of the included graphic organizers for 1:1 technology schools.

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Lesson Includes:

• Making Predictions
• Comprehension Questions + Answer Key
• Literary Elements and Devices Graphic Organizer + Answer Key
• Extend Your Learning Assignment
• Standards-based Assessment
• Points-based Assessment
• Individual PDFs of student pages for uploading to Google Classroom or other online learning portals
• Google Slides graphic organizers for 1:1 schools

Teacher Feedback 

1. “Great questions! This is a fun story to get middle grade students used to reading more traditional texts with antiquated/old fashioned language.”
2. “Neat little story!”

Notes:

1. This resource is NOT editable.
2. Due to copyright, PDFs of the short story are not included.
3. This lesson is included in the 6th Grade Short Story Unit.

Related Resources:

• • 6th Grade Short Story Unit
  • 7th Grade Short Story Unit
  • 8th Grade Short Story Unit