The Waste Land Lesson Plan

Homage and Disparage

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to take an irreverent approach to Eliot's work

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.6; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.7; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.3

Structure:

Divide students into two groups. One group should read H.P. Lovecraft's "Waste Paper," either in hard copy or at the following link:

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/poetry/p228.aspx

The second group should read Eddy Martinez's "T.S. Eliot Goes on a Duck Tour," either in hard copy or in Electric Cereal at the following link:

http://www.electriccereal.com/t-s-eliot-goes-on-a-duck-tour/

Give each group ten...