Suitable for Year 9 students, Elizabeth Acevedo’s Clap When You Land is a contemporary novel written in verse, exploring the fallout of a traumatic real-life event.
This scheme of work contains 23 lesson plans, giving students the opportunity to develop the ability of analysing different literary styles and to explore themes including:
The scheme of work is fully resourced, making it possible for you to download and teach with minimal planning. It provides opportunities for developing skills including:
From the Blurb:
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people… In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance – and Papi’s secrets – the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered. And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other. In a dual narrative novel in verse that brims with both grief and love, award-winning and bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.