The Metamorphosis Lesson Plan

Kafka's Prague: Identity, Politics, and Place

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

Students will be able to connect textual evidence with historical research to map relationships between historical events, author's biography, and aesthetics

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.7; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.8

Structure:

This project is designed for students to develop an understanding of the geopolitical and cultural contexts within which Kafka wrote The Metamorphosis and The Judgment (assigned reading for Day 4), and to develop understanding of the relationships between Kafka's personal history, the history of Prague and its Jewish...