Hayavadana Lesson Plan

Discussion: What Does It Mean to Be "Complete"?

Kind of Activity:

Group Discussion

Objective:

Students will leverage other resources in their exploration of the text's central themes.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.3 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.4 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.6

Structure:

This activity has two parts. In the first part, students should organize themselves into groups of 2-3 people, and the teacher should give them pages 60-65 of this PDF handout (the passage is taken from Plato's The Symposium, a Platonic dialogue about the...