Madame Butterfly Lesson Plan

Act II Part I (Until "Butterfly runs into another room...")

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.7

   Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3

   
   Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the...