Manhattan Transfer Lesson Plan

Introduction to Modernist Literature

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will learn about the modernist movement in Western culture and then analyze Dos Passos's text.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.3; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.7; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.8; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.9

Structure:

Have students watch this video from a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Exeter, Tom Nicholas, on the modernist movement.

Afterward, have students examine what they've read of Manhattan Transfer so far. Ask them to consider these questions in a classwide discussion:

• What modernist literary techniques...