Percy Shelley: Poems Lesson Plan

The Life and Times of Percy Shelley Part 2

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

Students will be able to make direct connections between events in Shelley’s life and his poetry. Students will understand how Shelley’s life influenced his poetry.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1.A, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2

Structure:

Taking the timeline they produced in ‘The Life and Times of Percy Shelley Part 1,’ students must place each poem studied in this unit in the chronology. Then, students must select 2-3 poems and analyze how an event or experience from Shelley’s life inspired or impacted the poems. The should take 2-3...