Peter Pan Lesson Plan

Contemporary Kids - What's in the Anxiety Drawer?

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will examine one of the metaphors in 'Peter Pan,' and analyze how it might apply to modern readers

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1

Structure:

One of the things that Barrie describes in Peter Pan is how mothers tidy the drawers of their children's minds at night. They put everything right, so that all of the child's worries are tidied away.

This is a very interesting concept, and brings our attention to the primary audience for this book - children. It is clear from the content of Peter Pan that while many worries...