Madame Bovary Lesson Plan

Madame Bovary and the Modern Novel

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will study how central ideas within the text have evolved beyond the confines of the text.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.5 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.8 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.4 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.5 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.6

Structure:

For this exercise, students will need to read an assigned essay from Marío Vargas Llosa's book The Perpetual Orgy: Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary, and then prepare a presentation what they read. The essays are as follows...