Uncle Tom's Cabin Lesson Plan

Description and Illustration

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will be able to respond to Stowe's descriptive writing by creating a work of art

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.3; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.5

Structure:

Discuss Stowe's descriptive writing style with the students. Although she's telling what they may now see is a polemical story, there to make a persuasive point, she often spends a great deal of time on her descriptive writing, on setting the different scenes using wide-ranging sensory detail. Read a few pre-selected passages aloud to the class: do students feel they can picture the settings or the characters in the...