The Arabian Nights: One Thousand and One Nights Lesson Plan

Discussion: "The Arabian Nights" as Literature

Kind of Activity:

Group Discussion

Objective:

Students will think about how and why the text has become such a fixture of world literature.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4

Structure:

The teacher should open up the class's Twitter account, so that they can look at some of the literary devices identified there with students. They can use this as an opportunity to take stock of some of the more general insights that this assignment offered. This should take no more than 5 minutes. Then the teacher should divide students into their groups...