Man and Superman Lesson Plan

Socialism and Redistribution

Kind of Activity:

Research

Objective:

Students will be able to understand the characters and perspectives Shaw satirizes in Act III

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.2; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.7; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.8

Structure:

We've now entered a different milieu in the play with very different characters—Socialists, Social-Democrats, and Anarchists, for instance. Some students may remember from the "Life of Shaw" activity that Shaw himself identified as a socialist, but it is likely that they will have only a vague idea of what that term means, much less what it meant in Shaw's time.

Divide students into small groups....