Oleanna Lesson Plan

Blogging the Play

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Through the use of a free blogging site like WordPress, students will produce a blog that responds to the contents of the play.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.1; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.2; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.11-12.4

Structure:

Have students create a blog on a free blogging site like WordPress. Ask them to compose short journal entries, around 250-500 words, for each reading assignment. The blog could be used as a way to help students remember content from what they read, a space to process anything they find confusing, frustrating, or otherwise difficult, and/or a venue for...