Content Notes: Gone Girl addresses issues such as domestic violence, emotional and psychological abuse, and rape. You may want to prepare your students, in case any of them have recent traumas around these issues. This is a difficult and personal subject, and should be treated with sensitivity. These lessons and activities provide many different approaches to the text; select those that best suit the strengths and interests of your own class.
The thought questions in this lesson plan provide material and ideas that students can use to write short original essays. For the sake of improving the power of expression, teachers should encourage students to write on topics that have been...
