The Island of Dr. Moreau Lesson Plan

Literature Comparison

Kind of Activity:

Research

Objective:

Students will compare one work of the author to another to find similarities and differences.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5 Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

Structure:

In groups or individually, have students pick and read a chapter excerpt from H.G. Wells' The Time Machine: http://www.bartleby.com/1000/11.html.

As they read, ask them to make a list of similarities and differences between the two...