Man and Superman Lesson Plan

Close Reading of Satan

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to conduct a close read of the Devil's speech

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.3; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.4

Structure:

Ask students to conduct a close reading of the following speech that the Devil makes, providing either printed and double-spaced copies for annotation, or devices with software for digital annotation (paper, if possible, would be better):

THE DEVIL. And is Man any the less destroying himself for all this boasted brain of his? Have you walked up and down upon the earth lately? I have; and I have examined Man's wonderful inventions. And I tell...