Rabindranath Tagore: Short Stories Lesson Plan

Show, Don't Tell: the Power of Sensing

Kind of Activity:

Research

Objective:

Students will analyze the imagery in In the Middle of the Night

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.4

Structure:

Begin by reading a passage from In the Middle of the Night aloud to show how the story is full of detailed, poetic physical description, painting a dreamlike scene. An example of a good illustrative passage is the paragraph that begins: "'One day we wandered far from the boat. As the golden shadows of the sunset faded, a clear full moon rose up before our eyes; and as a great, unchecked flood of moonlight spread right up to the horizon, over vast white sandbanks,...