The Picture of Dorian Gray Lesson Plan

What Would You Do?

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Students will compare how young and old people feel about the idea of Dorian's Faustian bargain.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.7

Structure:

In today's reading, the first signs of Dorian's bargain begin to make themselves clear, as the portrait starts to take on a more nefarious demeanor in response to his cruel and abrupt termination of Dorian's engagement with Sibyl. While the idea of transferring the aging process to another object and remaining forever young may seem appealing, Dorian is immediately uncomfortable seeing his sins visually represented...