Phillis Wheatley: Poems Lesson Plan

Critical Reading and Context

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will be able to consider the impact that the reading of a critic has on the way they read an author's work

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.4; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1

Structure:

Ask students to write a brief reflection on a time that a critic—be it someone they knew or someone whose work they read—made them view a work of art differently. Did they see a movie they didn't understand at first, but liked when someone explained it to them? Did they learn that a beloved book from childhood made racist references that they hadn't understood before, making them see the...