The Picture of Dorian Gray Lesson Plan

Read Chapters 17-20.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

   Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.7

   Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1

   Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning...