"Living Like Weasels" Lesson Plan

For my teaching of reading methods course, I had to prepare and teach a 50minute language arts lesson.  We were to envision ourselves teaching in a high school classroom of our choosing, so the context for the lesson is just one day out of a full term.  I decided to build my lesson around Annie Dillard's "Living Like Weasels."  When I first read "LLW" however many weeks ago, it struck me right away as a very good piece to use with a high school class for a number of reasons:
     First, its short length makes it just the right size to serve as a complement to a longer text that the class is studying; and its theme of "yielding at every moment to the perfect freedom of a single necessity" makes it a worthy candidate to stand alongside any number of novels I might end up teaching. 
     Or, it could also be used as a week-long mini-lesson by itself.
     Furthermore, Dillard's writing is so strong that it provides a brilliant example for examining the use of various narrative devices, especially those concerning the use of figurative language in non-fiction writing.
     And that brings me to my third point, the Common Core Standards that are being adopted by IL public schools place a very heavy emphasis on non-fiction writing in the high school, so "LLW" fits the bill on that point too.

My lesson plan is for the first day of several for working with "LLW" in class.  Students have read the essay for homework.  I know that there are at least a few ed people in our class so I've attached links to my lesson plan and class handout on GoogleDocs for you to view if you'd like.  I was also videotaped teaching my 50min lesson; but don't worry, I won't be posting that!!

Lesson Plan:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/175n_D42zHEmdzuTM7f420G0BwNuiXaYlVmBXWL7qoXY/edit

Handout:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kvz7hHx4tRClH9ZsGtLEGW1-VHhCN1iw33i1B8VKJEw/edit