Ulysses Lesson Plan

Casting Call

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will engage with Joyce's extensive descriptive language to cast a film adaptation of Ulysses.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.1

Structure:

Given its verbosity and slow pacing, it's no surprise that James Joyce has filled Ulysses with vibrant and intense descriptive language about his characters and their surrounding environments. (One could argue that the bulk of the novel is descriptions, in fact). Just about halfway through our study of the novel, we've now met most of its main characters, some more than others. Students are asked with this activity to select one character and...