Day 3

The Necklace Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    Determining Morals

    Kind of Activity:

    Individual Writing

    Objective:

    Students will be able to analyze both morals and themes in Maupassant’s stories.

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1

    Structure:

    To begin the activity, ask students to define a “moral.” Students may say a moral is an ethical lesson. Explain to students that fables are the kind of story that usually come with a clear moral. Many short stories lack explicit morals. However, several of the stories they’ve read by Maupassant could have morals, depending on one’s interpretation. In this activity, students will develop morals for several of the stories they have...

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