The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Lesson Plan

Are We In Kansas Anymore?

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will use textual evidence to envision and describe a novel's settings, then create visual or written representations of those settings as a means of understanding or imagining them more clearly.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.3; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.7; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.9; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.5; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.7;

Structure:

Ask students to do some research about Kansas, Dorothy's home state. On an online classroom blackboard or online class forum, have students post photographs, maps, facts, or drawings/paintings/illustrations of Kansas,...