The Yellow Wallpaper Lesson Plan

Students read Sections 5-9 (pp. 13-16).

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   Reading well: appreciating how the author is playing out each theme; appreciating how the author is weaving together the various threads of the narrative; enjoying the suspense of the narrator's growing mental instability.

2. 2

   Thinking well: using the discussion questions and the mock debate to consider how to draw conclusions from evidence and to use evidence to weigh arguments and counterarguments.

3. 3

   Speaking well: developing oral skills through vocabulary development, debate, and group discussion.

4. 4

   Listening well: developing a taste for good grammar, creative thought, and debate by closely examining the text;...