Day 2

Cathedral Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    Forlorn Vacations

    Kind of Activity:

    Artistic Response

    Objective:

    To understand and explore the impact of Myers’s pathetic vacation in “The Compartment.”

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6

    Structure:

    One of the key elements of “The Compartment” is the pathetic nature of Myers’s trip. On his first, and what the story tells us will most likely be his only visit to Europe, Myers is disappointed more than anything else. In the train, he reads guidebooks, learning about the places he visited after he has already left them. It saddens him to discover what he missed out on, and what he could have planned better to see, and yet this...

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