Top Girls Lesson Plan

On the Nature of Things

Kind of Activity:

Mixed Media

Objective:

Students will be able to create an artistic response to the text

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.9

Structure:

In Act 1, Scene 1, Pope Joan recites an excerpt from the poem "De rerum natura" by Lucretius. She also talks of her death as a matter of fact, not the horrific event that it seems to the other women.

In this activity, students should read one of these two articles on their own:

"Lucretius, part 1: a poem to explain the entire world around us" by Emma Woolerton, a shorter article aimed at a...