Day 2

The Importance of Being Earnest Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read the second half of Act I, beginning with Lady Bracknell and Gwendolen's arrival.

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4
    Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).

  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).

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