Lesson Plan 2

Lesson Plan Two
16.1.2010
Reading 1 – Hills Like White Elephants
Reading 2 – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Writing exercise 1 - Write your obituary. List all of your life’s accomplishments. You can write it as if you died today or fifty or more years in the future.

Distinction between Funeral Oration and Obituary.
The Oral and the Written
http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/julius_caesar/10/
Brutus oration and Mark Antony’s counter.
Using rhetoric. Narratives are rhetorical in essence, whatever form they take.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Light_Has_Gone_Out
Nehru on Gandhi’s assassination.

Students read and discuss the short obituaries.
Lifeless, dynamic, short, long, achievement based, personality based.

(Kunal Sen) The basic structure – 3 act structure.
Every narrative will fold into this.

Aristotle – beginning, middle, end.

Reading: James Thurber-The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

Writing Exercise 2 - Keep a diary of a fictional character. This will begin today and will be submitted next Saturday. Let us see what your fictional character thinks and does across a week.