Jane Eyre Lesson Plan

Jane Eyre Illustration Design

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will create illustrations for Jane Eyre.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2

Structure:

1. As a class, students should brainstorm what important elements from the novel could be brought out with illustrations. Refer to Brontë's complex, often lush visual descriptions.

2. Project Gutenberg contains a copy of Jane Eyre transcribed from the 1897 Service & Paton edition by David Price. It contains illustrations by F.H. Townsend. In pairs, students should look at and discuss some of these illustrations. Do they feel that the illustrations capture the characters and events...