Sense and Sensibility Lesson Plan

Music in Regency England

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will research and write about people's relationship with music in Regency England.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.2

Structure:

Music occupies a small but significant corner of Sense and Sensibility, and through its inclusion in the novel, we see Austen depicting a musical life in wealthy Regency England that is likely quite different from the one students are familiar with: one's main exposure to music was likely at church or at home in front of the piano, as interpreted by whoever in your family could play the...