Historical Influences on Morality: A Basis for Literary Study

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Students will complete a simple research activity and create a classroom reference poster with other group members.
Students will compare their research with a straightforward text to gauge their understanding.
Students will take one philosophical view and apply this understanding to a short story.

From this lesson, students will get a general overview of the historical span of philosophical thought and how it may have been a product or reaction to the time period. This will help students in future texts throughout the semester to identify how moral norms affected characters’ lives.

Length of time needed: 2 class periods

This lesson was written by Stephanie Hicks.

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