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StoryboardThat: The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers (lesson plan)

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Collection
Instructional Guides
Subject
English Language Arts
Grades
Grades 7-8
Format
Lesson Page
Curriculum
Curriculum alignment not recorded
Publisher or host
storyboardthat.com
Source language
English

Classroom fit

Visual storyboarding lesson for the commonly paired Myers story. Useful for scaffolding paired-reading week. The Treasure of Lemon Brown shares structural DNA with Thank You M’am: a young person encounters an older person who holds wisdom gained through suffering; the older person’s treasure is experiential rather than material. In the fictional 1958 Harlem: Lemon Brown could be an NPC in a condemned tenement the bookworms enter. Free basic access; subscription for full features.

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