Blackout 6-pack Author: Rebecca Green ISBN: 9780790320274 Copyright Date: 2007 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 6 Reading Level: W Strategy/Skill: Point of view, Making inferences, Comparing and contrasting Genre: Realistic Fiction Theme/Topic: Safety, Personal Change, Neighborhood, Family Classification: Fiction

Book Summary

When Lucia moves from a small town to a city, she misses her friends, especially on her birthday.  That evening, as she is getting ready to go out with her parents, the power goes off.  As her family struggle to cope with the blackout, she finds out that city life isn’t at all what she’d imagined.

Features of the Book

• Realistic fiction
• Plot, characters, setting
• Theme of change and adjustment
• First person narration

Purpose

Blackout can be used to introduce and reinforce the following skills and understandings:

• making inferences
• evaluating a character’s point of view
• comparing and contrasting aspects of a story
• discussing the world’s dependence on electricity and the effects of disruptions to power supply

For more information please see our Lesson Plan