Understanding The Urban Environment: Only The Dead Know Brooklyn

In this lesson students will read "Only The Dead Know Brooklyn" by Thomas Wolfe. Students will examine the implicit and explicit impacts that the language has on the setting, plot, and characters in the story.

Lesson:

1. Read and annotate "Only The Dead Know Brooklyn" by Thomas Wolfe. If you are having trouble with the text, please see the translated version. Only The Dead Know Brooklyn Translated.

2. Complete the Reading Comprehension Google Doc that goes along with the story.

3. Complete the Implicit vs. Explicit Graphic Organizer that outlines the implicit and explicit ways that language impacts the story.

4. Using your graphic organizer, complete the Only The Dead Know Brooklyn Writing Prompt.

Background:

Map of Brooklyn: