Day 1

Howards End Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    Howards End/On Beauty

    Kind of Activity:

    Long-term Project

    Objective:

    Students will read a contemporary work of literature (On Beauty by Zadie Smith), that reimagines the events of Howards End set in present-day America.

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.9, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2

    Structure:

    Contemporary novelist Zadie Smith was inspired by the literature of E.M. Forster and used Howards End at the inspiration for her novel On Beauty. On Beauty reimagines the same events and themes of Howards End in present-day America, specifically a college town in Massachusetts. In her novel, the Kips and Belsey families interact with...

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