Mrs. Dalloway Lesson Plan

From Text to Film to Skit

Kind of Activity:

Mixed Media

Objective:

Students will explore how differences in media can affect the interpretation of a literary work.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.7

Structure:

Obtain a copy of the film The Hours, or screen the Train Station Scene on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2WRvfj5TTM&t=59s. While students watch this scene, ask them to take notes of places where themes from Mrs. Dalloway--sanity and insanity, life in London, medical diagnosis--appear in Virginia's conversation with her husband. Ask them to watch with an eye

After the scene is finished, break students into four groups of 3-8,...