Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan
Objectives:
1. Students will connect the three main settings to the three main characters.
2. Students will share ideas with their peers.
3. Students will investigate the definition of connection.
Procedure :
1. I will start class by asking my students to draw a place where they are most comfortable on a blank sheet of paper.
2. The students will share the places they have created with their peers.
3. I will then open the class to classroom discussion about “what is it that makes us feel connected to these places?”
4. After students have discussed this idea, I will bring up the idea of how the places that we feel the most connected to are reflective of ourselves.
5. I will then make three columns on the board. Each column will represent Thrushcross Grange, Wuthering Heights, and The Moors.
6. I will then ask students to give me characteristics of each of the three places.
7. I will then make the connection of the three main characters (Catherine, Heathcliff, and Edgar) to the three settings on the board based upon the characteristics that the students identified.
8. After identifying the three characters with the three settings, I will assign the homework for that night.
9. The homework for my students will be a brochure that takes the reader on a literary tour of each of the three places in the novel. In the last panel, my students will say which of the three places that they will live.
Assessment:
My assessment of this project will be a rubric that evaluates my students.
Modifications:
For gifted students, I will have further activities for them to complete after their classwork is
finished.
For my struggling students: If English is not my student’s native tongue then I would translate the lesson to fit his/her’s native language. I also would like to give students the opportunity to use alternate means of expression (i.e. pictures, models, etc). I will also give these students more time on their work.
1. Students will connect the three main settings to the three main characters.
2. Students will share ideas with their peers.
3. Students will investigate the definition of connection.
Procedure :
1. I will start class by asking my students to draw a place where they are most comfortable on a blank sheet of paper.
2. The students will share the places they have created with their peers.
3. I will then open the class to classroom discussion about “what is it that makes us feel connected to these places?”
4. After students have discussed this idea, I will bring up the idea of how the places that we feel the most connected to are reflective of ourselves.
5. I will then make three columns on the board. Each column will represent Thrushcross Grange, Wuthering Heights, and The Moors.
6. I will then ask students to give me characteristics of each of the three places.
7. I will then make the connection of the three main characters (Catherine, Heathcliff, and Edgar) to the three settings on the board based upon the characteristics that the students identified.
8. After identifying the three characters with the three settings, I will assign the homework for that night.
9. The homework for my students will be a brochure that takes the reader on a literary tour of each of the three places in the novel. In the last panel, my students will say which of the three places that they will live.
Assessment:
My assessment of this project will be a rubric that evaluates my students.
Modifications:
For gifted students, I will have further activities for them to complete after their classwork is
finished.
For my struggling students: If English is not my student’s native tongue then I would translate the lesson to fit his/her’s native language. I also would like to give students the opportunity to use alternate means of expression (i.e. pictures, models, etc). I will also give these students more time on their work.