The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Lesson Plan

Scavenger Hunt: Walter Benjamin

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will explore the biographical and contextual background of one of the essay.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9–10.7 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.8

Structure:

To begin this activity, the teacher should break students into groups of 3–5 people. Each will be tasked with participating in a scavenger hunt: each group will be tracking down more biographical information about Walter Benjamin online, using the end of the video as a starting point:

1. What kind of background or intellectual interests did Benjamin have? How were...