War and Peace Lesson Plan

Writing an Epilogue

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Students demonstrate understanding of the text by providing a commentary and conclusion for the main text

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.2; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3

Structure:

At the end of book four, there are still a number of loose ends remaining to be resolved in Tolstoy’s narrative. War and Peace includes two epilogues. An epilogue is a section at the end of a text that serves as a comment or a conclusion to the action of the main story.

Activity

Students should write their own epilogues to War...