Cat Person Lesson Plan

Critical Responses to "Cat Person"

Kind of Activity:

Group Discussion

Objective:

Students will be able to discuss the immediate reaction to the story after it was first published

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.6; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.7

Structure:

Divide students into three groups, and ask each group to read and annotate one of the following articles published in the week after "Cat Person" went viral:

The uproar over the New Yorker short story "Cat Person," explained, by Constance Grady, from Vox

"Cat Person," the Short Story That Everyone on the Internet Has Been Talking About for the Last 72 Hours, by Christopher Frizzelle, from The...