Day 5

Rabindranath Tagore: Short Stories Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    The Gift of Sight and Living with Blindness

    Kind of Activity:

    Research

    Objective:

    Students will use technology to research what it's like to live with blindness and write an article for a modern day audience about their findings

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.3, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.6, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.7

    Structure:

    Begin by reading aloud in class the passage from The Gift of Sight that begins "Very late at night my husband came and said, 'I've been called to a place a long way off - I must leave at dawn tomorrow" and ends 'Cut open my breast and see!' I said. 'I am an ordinary woman - in my heart I am nothing but that young bride...

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