Call of the Wild Lesson Plan

Instinct: Art and Science

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of themes through a variety of media.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.6, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2

Structure:

Ask students to reflect upon the significance of the following passage.

“It was an old song, old as the breed itself—one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad. It was invested with the woe of unnumbered generations, this plaint by which Buck was so strangely stirred. When he moaned and sobbed, it was with the pain of living that was of old the pain of his wild fathers, and the fear and...