Evelina Lesson Plan

Unspoken Rules

Kind of Activity:

Collaborative Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to identify and analyze examples of rules and protocols in their own lives, similar to those Evelina must decipher.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2

Structure:

Before the activity, assign the following article on 18th-century assemblies (https://www.regencydances.org/paper025.php#bath).

Then, show students the following video titled “Dancing at the assembly rooms” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUO4IBIQFy4). Explain that this is a contemporary person’s “coming of age” party that they based off of Jane Austen’s novels. So, it is not exactly what Evelina and the...