A Room of One's Own Lesson Plan

Locate some passages in today’s reading in which Woolf’s writing is particularly literary or fiction-like. What qualities does it take on in these passages? What is the effect of these passages on the rest of the essay thus far?

Students might point to the passage in which Woolf compares thought to a fishing line that one sinks beneath the surface of the water, and an idea to a little fish that she catches and then throws back because it is too small. Or they might explore the numerous instances where Woolf pays attention to the scenery and describes nature in poetic detail (like "the time between the lights when colours undergo their intensification and purples and...