A Room of One's Own Lesson Plan

The training of a woman’s sensibility

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will consider the training, or education, of women's consciousness both historically and today; they will then envision a way to expand this education and present their vision to an audience.

Structure:

To begin, students should revisit the following passage in which Woolf comments on why women of the nineteenth century wrote novels rather than other genres: “Then, again, all the literary training that a woman had in the early nineteenth century was training in the observation of character, in the analysis of emotion. Her sensibility had been educated for centuries by the...