The English Patient Lesson Plan

Literary Impressions

Kind of Activity:

Mixed Media

Objective:

To analyze Ondaatje’s style of literary impressionism by relating it to impressionist painting.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5

Structure:

Show students impressionist paintings from the online archive at The Art Story: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-impressionism.htm

Have a class discussion about what students know about impressionist paintings and what they think about the images. Highlight the key ideas found on The Art Stories page:

• Impressionist painters tried to make their images more “real” by imitating how the...