Reading Lolita in Tehran Lesson Plan

Gatsby

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1.D

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.4

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.1

4. 4

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1.C

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Gatsby

In this second section, Azar writes about her first semester as a professor at the University of Tehran. She started teaching just as the Iranian Revolution of 1979 began. The country was in an extreme state of flux. At...