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Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Reading Journal | Unabridged & Young Readers

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9th - 12th
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40+ digital versions, suggestions, and answer keys
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Learning Objective

Students will practice analytical and creative writing. Students will create claims, and then support these claims with textual evidence and reason.

Description

Teach Born a Crime by Trevor Noah--online or in-person--with this reading journal and workbook to engage students. This reading journal and workbook for Born a Crime will make incorporating creative and thoughtful activities simple!

This 40-page resource centers on 5 writing prompts with additional enrichment lessons and engaging activities. The journal has rubrics built-in but also comes with rubric-free pages in case you have a different grading style. Other activities include quote, poetry, and theme analyses.

This resource even includes enrichment activities such as Born a Crime-themed crossword, word search, and reflective journal responses. These activities are great for early finishers, or fidgety students to do while listening to the audiobook version.

Highly flexible! This resource includes a version for both the unabridged and young readers editions of Born a Crime. Two versions of each set of writing prompts are also included (with and without rubrics). This resource is also both printable and digital!

Teach every page or use only what you'd like. These activities make for great enrichment or even sub plans!


This Born a Crime Reading Journal & Workbook Resource Includes:

  • UNEDITABLE 40-page PRINTABLE reading journal and workbook for BOTH the unabridged & young readers editions
    • 5 C-E-R (claim, evidence, and reasoning) based writing prompt questions
      • 5 alternative pages without the rubric
    • Character Tracker
    • About the Author activity
    • 2 Quote Analyses
    • 2 Journal Responses
    • 2 Poetry Analysis Activities
    • 2 Theme Analysis Activities
    • Create a Poster for Fighting Injustice Activity
    • Graphic Organizer for Tracking Allusions
    • Characterization Worksheet
    • Word Search
    • Crossword
    • Create a Playlist Worksheet
    • Book Review Worksheet
    • Memoir Writing Activity
    • Plan a Podcast Worksheet
  • UNEDITABLE Google Slides version of the same activities for BOTH text editions
  • EDITABLE Google Doc version of the writing prompts for BOTH text editions
  • Google Sheets rubric for easy grading and rubric importing (with instructions)
  • Teacher's Guide
  • Answer key

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Total Pages
40+ digital versions, suggestions, and answer keys
Answer Key
Included with rubric
Teaching Duration
1 month
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Standards

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Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 9-10 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

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