Christopher Marlowe's Poems Lesson Plan

A Prayer for a Pet Parrot

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will demonstrate mastery of the text as well as the literary devices of satire and classical allusion by taking a close look at a specific section of the poem (the death of the parrot).

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.3, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.5, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.3

Structure:

For a layered understanding of Ovid's poem and Marlowe's job as a translator, direct students to the Latin original of Elegy VI in Book II, the section that mourns the death of Corinna's pet parrot: http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid/lboo/lboo28.htm. Using the texts, lead the students...