The English Patient Lesson Plan

Writing a Treatment Plan

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Analyze the effects of the characters’ experience during the war and assess what they do to recover from the trauma of those experiences.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.1.D; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.8

Structure:

To this point in the book we’ve heard about extremely traumatic events that have happened to each character during the course of the war. There is strong evidence in the text that these traumatic events are impacting the characters in detrimental ways. In this project we will ask students to learn about post-traumatic stress disorder,...