Beyond the Curve Lesson Plan

Is Objectivity Possible?: The Self in Isolation

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will make a study of the mental states of the characters in "An Irrelevant Death" and "The Crime of S. Karma".

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.9, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.5

Structure:

To begin the activity, students will choose to focus on either A— from “An Irrelevant Death” or the narrator from “The...