Arcadia Lesson Plan

Et In Arcadia Ego

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will understand the references implied by the title and consider their relevance to the play

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4

Structure:

Project images of the three paintings titled Et In Arcadia Ego, two by Poussin and one by Guercino.

Distribute a copy of the poem of the same title by W.H. Auden, and read aloud as a class.

Distribute an informational sheet about Arcadia in Ancient Greece.

As a class, reread the segment of Act One, Scene One in which Thomasina, Lady Croom, and Septimus discuss the phrase.

As a group the...