The Death of Ivan Ilych Lesson Plan

Chapters 2-3.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2

   Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6

   Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement.)

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...