The Homecoming Lesson Plan | Unit Objectives

1. Through reading Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt, students will gain a better understanding of a variety of themes, such as what makes a home, friendship, family ties, love, mental illness, and religion.. The themes in the book are almost too numerous to mention.

2. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the text on four levels: factual, interpretive, critical, and personal.

3. Students will define their own viewpoints on the vast number of issues presented in the novel.

4. Students will be exposed to new ways of looking at their own lives and the lives of other people.

5. Students will study various aspects of modern farming and will create plans for dealing with some of the needs of the farming community.

6. Students will be practice reading aloud as well as silently.

7. Students will enrich their vocabularies and improve their understanding of the novel through the vocabulary lessons prepared for use in conjunction with it.

8. Students will practice writing through a variety of assignments.

9. The writing assignments in this unit are geared to several purposes:

a. to check the students’ reading comprehension
b. to make students think about the ideas presented in the book
c. to allow students to write from personal experience, to inform, and to persuade
d. to provide the opportunity to review standard English
e. to encourage critical and logical thinking

10. Students will be encouraged to make connections between the book and real life.