Night Lesson Plan

Kiefer and Celan: "Your Golden Hair, Margarete"

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will be able to comprehend Kiefer's visual response to Celan's "Death Fugue" and create original work of art based on symbols in the novel

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.9; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4

Structure:

In this lesson, students will return to previous studies of poet Paul Celan and artist Anselm Kiefer to create an original artwork representing a selected scene from Night. 

Kiefer created more than thirty works in different media based on Celan's "Death Fugue." In particular, Kiefer responded to two...