Invisible Man Lesson Plan

Read the Prologue and Chapters 1-5.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.3

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.5

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.2

4. 4

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.6

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Prologue

The narrator explains that he is an invisible man "simply because people refuse to see me." In a manner laced with melancholy, he describes how he has learned to use this quality to his advantage—he...