The Picture of Dorian Gray Lesson Plan

The Diary of Dorian Gray (Part 2)

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

Students will write a journal entry from the perspective of one of the novel's characters that responds to the day's reading.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3

Structure:

In today's reading, we begin to see the ultimate fallout from Dorian's Faustian bargain: having murdered Basil, he seems unable to take pleasure in his usual pursuit of aesthetic pleasure, and succumbs to the "mad craving" of his previously undeclared opium addiction. While at the opium den, he is at long last confronted by James Vane, and...