Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Lesson Plan

Hemingway "Street View"

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will become more familiar with geographical locations in Hemingway's stories and use visual response to interpret verbal descriptions of physical settings

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.4

Structure:

Begin by dividing students into groups and assigning each group one of the following places which appear in the stories read for Day 3:

• Mt. Kilimanjaro
• Harry's camp site
• Thrace
• The woodcutter's house in the Gauertal
• Schrunz
• Paris
• The journey from Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and Anatolia
• The Ebro valley ("Hills Like White...