Siddhartha Lesson Plan

Searching in Siddhartha

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to infer meaning from the text and draw on explicit and implicit meaning to define qualities of character.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.3

Structure:

Students are going to play the role of a character performing a google search. They will then comment on what they discover from the point of view of the character. Ask students to select either Siddhartha, Govinda or Kamala for the following activity.

Ask them to imagine what their character would search for given the circumstances of the story surrounding that character. Ask them to provide at least ten possible...