Go Tell it On the Mountain Lesson Plan

Dream Logic

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

To understand John’s visions and to develop a means of discussing the events of dreams in literature.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3

Structure:

Introduce the activity by telling students that dreams and visions can be tricky to analyze in literature, since they both conceal and reveal: they reveal the inner preoccupations of characters, and can carry great weight with characters themselves; however, since they come from the minds of these same characters and do not necessarily hold any bearing on the reality of the book’s world, they can also...