Lord Jim Lesson Plan

Hoist The Mizzenmast

Kind of Activity:

Research

Objective:

Students will use historic information to better visualize an important setting in the novel.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1

Structure:

In these opening chapters, we spend more time aboard sea vessels than we will for the rest of the novel. As such, this is a fine opportunity for students to familiarize themselves with the basic layout of a ship like the Patna, which Conrad describes as a steamer. Divide students into small groups of 2-3 individuals. Each group will use either the library or the internet to find diagrams of steamer ships from the early 20th century. Because there are so...