Fallen Angels , Walter Dean Myers
Lesson plans and teaching resources

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Biography and Background

A Video Interview with Walter Dean Myers
Biography, bibliography, video clips, and transcripts.

Walter Dean Myers
Biography and list of awards, titles.

Walter Dean Myers' Second Chance Initiative
This page is rich with resources. Scroll down to find podcasts on prewriting, on magical realism, and more.

Lesson Plans and Learning Activities

Fallen Angels
Anticipation guide, vocabulary mapping, and other learning activities, including support for the video Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam .

Fallen Angels
A teacher shares resources for her students, including unit plan, writing activities, vocabulary handouts, active reading questions, and final project ideas.

Fallen Angels
This unit plan asks students to research the Sixties and culminates in students writing their own historical fiction. Includes anticipation guide, YouTube links and song lyrics, vocabulary and mapping, rubrics, more. 27 pages; Adobe Reader required for access.

Fallen Angels Anticipation Guide
Students respond to statements before and after reading. Access requires MS-Word or compatible application.

Fallen Angels : Multimedia Project on the Vietnam War
Students use a combination of music, images, carefully chosen quotations from the novel Fallen Angels and excerpts from research to make readers care about the Vietnam War from a particular perspective. An excellent project. Rubric included.

Fallen Angels Teaching Guide
This site offers theme openers, crosscurricular activities, research assignments, and suggestions for related reading.

Fallen Angels vocabulary
Words are presented in context and with definitions. Click on a word for pronunciation, examples of recent use, more.