Orlando Lesson Plan

Become the Biographer

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will write their own fantastical biography of a person, imitating the style of Woolf's novel.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3.B; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3.D

Structure:

This is a multi-day activity. Over the course of this unit, students will write six "chapters" of their own biographies (of a person of their choosing) as a pastiche of Orlando.

The first day of this project will take about an hour, while the rest of the days should last around a half hour.

Introduce the project after discussing the day's thought questions about the tone and...