The Marriage of Figaro Lesson Plan

The Difference an Edition Can Make

Kind of Activity:

Research

Objective:

Students will become scholarly sleuths to find out who wrote the unsigned "Advertisement" preceding this edition of The Marriage of Figaro.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1

Structure:

How do we determine the author of an unsigned foreword? Sometimes, when working with old texts, we have to use detective work to get the full picture.

Together as a class, re-read the "Advertisement" at the beginning of this edition of The Marriage of Figaro. Then students will work individually, using library resources and online research to place the edition...