Jude the Obscure Lesson Plan

Sixpence For Your Thoughts (Part 1)

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

Students will write a journal entry from the perspective of one of the novel's characters that responds to the day's reading.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3

Structure:

Jude the Obscure is a novel that deals largely with the internal lives of its characters, and how they choose to reflect those lives (or not) in their outward appearances. As such, throughout our study of the novel, students will be given occasional assignments to write journal entries from a major character's perspective. These journal...