Coriolanus Lesson Plan

Creative Writing: Coriolanus and Cancel Culture

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will explore themes from the text imaginatively through creative writing.

Common Core Standards:

N/A

Structure:

In this activity, each student will work to contemporize Coriolanus's fall from grace in Act III, Scene 3 by re-writing it in light of contemporary "cancel culture".

At the beginning of the activity, the teacher should have students watch the adaptation of this scene in Ralph Fiennes's 2011 film Coriolanus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwYCq53vmNY

Then, students should be given a piece of paper and a pen, as well as the following prompt:

Imagine...