Richard III Lesson Plan

Machiavelli: Determined to Play the Villain, or Determined to Keep Power?

Kind of Activity:

Group Discussion

Objective:

Students will be able to think more critically about the themes of the novel from a variety of perspectives.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11–12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11–12.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11–12.7 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1

Structure:

To start this activity, the teacher should have students watch the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUlGtrHCGzs

The teacher can stop to review the video with students momentarily, answering any other questions that students might have about Machiavelli in the process. Then,...