Anna Karenina Lesson Plan

Gossip Column

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will summarize the text in their own words.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.4

Structure:

Everyone is gossiping in gossiping in Part 2 of Anna Karenina--whether it be about the social circles people are running in, who has jilted his or her lover, who is hiding abroad from past embarrassments, and who is paying much more attention to someone else than what is appropriate.

Summarize the events of Act II in the form of a gossip column. For...