This Lesson Plan makes use of the 2019 2nd edition of The Prince, edited by Quentin Skinner and Russell Price, for the "Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought" book series. It uses Russell Price's 1988 translation from the original Italian.
The thought questions in this lesson plan provide material and ideas that students can use to write short original essays and to develop their powers of analysis. The questions provided for the final paper are most suitable for student essays. For the sake of improving students' written expression, teachers should encourage students to write on topics that have been discussed in class, this time in the more formal writing style expected...
