The Garden Party Lesson Plan

Read Mr. & Mrs. Dove, The Young Girl, Life of Ma Parker, and Marriage à la Mode.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3

   Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.7

   Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2

   Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in...