Paradise Lost Lesson Plan

Discussion: How to Read Milton

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will acquire tools and techniques which they can use to understand important works of literature.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11–12.7 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11–12.4 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11–12.6

Structure:

The teacher should start the activity by splitting the class into 4 groups of at least 4 people. Each group will be asked to watch one or several of a series of videos in which a professor at the School of Theatre at Penn State University gives advice about how to read Shakespeare. These lessons will also provide a method which students can use to understand John Milton...