Looking for Alaska Lesson Plan

John Green and the Patriarchal Paradigm

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

To examine the relative feminism (or lack thereof) of the text from Alaska's perspective.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1 ; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.2

Structure:

Looking for Alaska has some confused and inconsistent ideas about what feminism is, and what it means to Alaska. As a class, try to answer these questions:

- Alaska considered herself a feminist, or at least is very vocal about the objectification of women and female solidarity. Do you think John Green would consider himself a feminist (at the time he wrote Looking for Alaska)?

- Why do you think he...