A Room of One's Own Lesson Plan

Connecting Woolf's use of animal imagery with Jungian archetypes and shamanism

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will deepen their understanding of the animal imagery and symbolism in "A Room of One's Own" by reading about and reflecting on shamanism and the work of Carl Jung.

Structure:

To start, the following instructions may be given to students:

Begin by locating any examples in today’s reading where Woolf references animals. For each example that you find, jot down any thoughts that arise in relation to it. These could be connections that you make to other locations in Woolf’s text, to ideas, philosophies, or schools of...