Day 4

The Emperor Jones Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read Scenes 7-8.

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.6
    Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (See grades 9-10 Language standards 1 and 3 here for specific expectations.)

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.9
    Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).

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...

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