Cathedral Lesson Plan

Portrait of a Marriage

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

To ask students to examine and reflect on the image of marriage as presented by Cathedral.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3

Structure:

Cathedral’s stories are in many ways a series of views of marriage. This activity will ask students to consider and interpret those views, presenting an artistic representation of how they believe Carver views marriage in his world.

Students should take the first five minutes of the activity considering each of the marriages presented in stories read thus far. You may decide to make this an independent activity, to lead a...