Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson

Speak shed's light on many serious issues facing adolescents.  If you want to take this novel as an opportunity to address sexual harassment, this lesson plan  provides a host of resources as well as activities that enable students to gain a deeper insight of how sexual harassment affects both boys and girls.


If you prefer to keep it more academic/literary focused, this detailed lesson plan is great - abundant with objectives, activities, vocabulary, journal topics, interdisciplinary connections, and much more. 


15 days worth of lessons/activities for Speak can be found here. Don't let the text at the top intimidate you - scroll down for the lesson plan, which is very neatly organized per day. 


Have you taught this book in your class? How did it go? What engaged your students?