Cyrano de Bergerac Lesson Plan

Adaptations I

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

To understand Cyrano's place in popular culture and its relationship to other texts

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.1; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.7; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.9

Structure:

Cyrano has endured as an independent work, but by far its greatest impact has been as a source for adaptation. In this five-part, long-term project, students will choose an adaptation of Cyrano and study it in-depth, focusing on the intertextual links between their chosen adaptation, the original, and other adaptations. Seen in this way, Cyrano is a living text!

Each student, independently, will choose one...