Lauren Davis, a former sixth-grade language arts teacher in Armonk, N.Y., is an acquisitions editor at Routledge and the editor of Common Core Literacy Lesson Plans: Ready-to-Use Resources, a recently published three-book series of lesson plans for students in grades K–5, 6–8 (from which this lesson is adapted) and 9–12. Follow Routledge on Twitter at @RoutledgeEd.