Teaching resource
Presto Plans: Roger writes Mrs. Jones 10 years later (creative writing letter assignment)
By Krista Mahan / Presto Plans
- Collection
- Writing Resources
- Subject
- English Language Arts
- Grades
- Grades 7-10
- Format
- Lesson Page
- Curriculum
- Curriculum alignment not recorded
- Publisher or host
- prestoplans.com
- Source language
- English
Classroom fit
Full pedagogical walkthrough: pre-reading discussion questions (second chances, power of kindness, It takes a village proverb), during-reading comprehension stops, post-reading discussion, then culminating creative writing: students imagine they are Roger 10 years later and write a thank-you letter to Mrs. Jones describing what they did after leaving, what they have been doing since, and what impact her actions had. Independently converges on the same structure as the Seminar Schools apology-letter assignment. Notes the Blue Suede Shoes Elvis Presley allusion and the Harlem conversational dialect as teaching points.