V For Vendetta Lesson Plan

Read Book 2, Prelude through Book 2, Chapter 10.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.1

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.6

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.2

4. 4

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Book 2, Prelude

The Prelude begins with V singing a song he calls “This Vicious Cabaret.” The song is about how culture was eradicated in the wake of the war in the 1980s and how that is...