The Golden Notebook Lesson Plan

Life of Lessing

Kind of Activity:

Research

Objective:

Students will be able to even further complicate the relationship between autobiography and fiction writing

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.7; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.8; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.2

Structure:

Create a collective timeline for the class spanning the years of Doris Lessing's life—either a physical timeline on chart paper or an online timeline using classroom software. Divide students into two groups. One group should be assigned to research the major events of Lessing's life, both in her writing and her personal life. Where was she born, and where did she live? Did she have children? What...