Wuthering Heights Lesson Plan

The Earnshaws' Violent Dispositions: Wuthering Heights and Mental Illness

Kind of Activity:

Group Discussion

Objective:

Students will be able to connect Brontë's images of mental instability with contemporary portrayals

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.3; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.8; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.9; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.7; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.3

Structure:

Mrs. Dean told Kenneth, "You are acquainted with the Earnshaws' violent dispositions, and Mrs Linton caps them all." Discuss her meaning with the students. What other evidence of "the Earnshaws' violent dispositions" is...