Virginia Woolf Lesson Plans

1. Language Arts: A History of Journal Writing
LOGO - PULSE A History of Journal Writing Author: Jill Torrey Emmons Time: 3 class periods Preparation 1 hour to review Time: source materials and make copies Materials: Copies of journal entries by Leonardo Da Vinci, Virginia Woolf, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Anne Frank, or other authors you have selected. Abstract For centuries and in many diverse cultures, journals have been kept by peasants and princes for a variety of purposes. For some, journals were tools for recording scientific observations, questions, and data. For others...

2. Mrs. Robinson and Other Historical Songs
...ing Bird Harriet Lane First Lady Who Killed John Lennon? Mark David Chapman Assassin Mr. James Dean James Dean Actor You Made Me Love You Clark Gable Actor Matinee Idol River Phoenix Actor Starry, Starry Night Vincent Van Gogh Painter Boxing Muhammad Ali Athlete Hey Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac Author Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf Author Biko Steven Biko Civil Rights James K. Polk James K. Polk President In The Aeroplane Over the Sea Anne Frank Author Jackie's Strength Jacqueline Kennedy First Lady Armstrong, Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins Collins Astronauts So Long, Frank Lloyd Wri...

3. Whose Rights are Right?
...t questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions... but by iron and blood." (Otto Von Bismarck, Prussian statesman.) "We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods." (Virginia Woolf, British novelist. From Three Guineas) "War; first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost." (Karl Kraus, Austrian satirist) "Some people draw a comforting distinction between 'force'...

4. Acting Up
...t Side Story," "Cyrano de Bergerac," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Death of a Salesman," "The Crucible," "Inherit the Wind," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "The Diary of Anne Frank," "Look Homeward, Angel," "Candide," "A Raisin in the Sun", "Miracle Worker," "Camelot," "Man of La Mancha," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", "Oliver!," "The Wiz," and "Dracula." Note that students will be reading in groups the text of the play or musical, so assign the works according to student age and ability level.) Each group conducts some brief Internet research to investigate the following aspects of the history of their assigne...

5. Faulkner's
...oint out: Stream-of-consciousness style. Mention that while this is Faulkner's narrative trademark, he was not the first to make use of this interior monologue technique. Faulkner's literary predecessors, as well as his contemporaries, made use of the technique notably James Joyce, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf. Non-linear narrative/broken sense of time; frequent and unexpected time shifts. Benjy's thought process is not guided by the normal sense of narrative chronology. His sense of perspective and memory is not set by the hands of a clock, but through other reminders. Ask students to recall different th...

6. 97.03.02: Women: Stride Toward Freedom
...s or combat replacing wounded soldiers. During the seventeen and eighteen hundreds women were employed in various fields, such as Marguerite Hastner of New York, a silversmith, and Ann Franklin, a newspaper editor in Rhode Island, Mary Salmon of Boston ran a blacksmith shop, Mary Wilson of Norfolk, Virginia was a shoe maker, Mary Katherine Goddard was a printer in Baltimore and she was authorized by the Continental Congress to print the first copy of the Declaration of Independence with the names of the signers attached, and Anna Zenger, wife of John Peter Zenger continued to publish her husband's newspaper...