Henry V Lesson Plan

Reading Criticism

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

To develop skills for parcing academic writing

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.2, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.4

Structure:

For homework the night before, have students read Stephen Greenblatt's "Invisible Bullets." This is a seminal essay of New Historicism and exists in several versions published in the 1980s. As part of their homework, students must create annotations to share with the class: divide the article into three parts and have students find an unfamiliar term, word, critical concept or name in each part to annotate. Each student will be responsible for three annotations. These can be...