Analyzing The Parable of the Madman: Nietzsche in the Classroom Grades 10-12

The phrase “God is dead” has entered into the zeitgeist. But what does this phrase mean? And how and where does the nineteenth-century writer and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche use it? Answer these questions with your students with Stones of Erasmus’s close reading and writing lesson plan resource.

With This Resource, You Get the Following Features

• PDF & Google Workspace Files
• 1 Teacher-facing Two-day Individual Lesson Plan
• 1 Entrance Ticket (with academic choice)
• 15 Close Reading Questions (w/ Answer Key)
• 1 Non-fiction Reading Summary of the Text
• 15 Carousel-style Discussion Questions
• 1 Full-page Writing Activity
• 1 Shareable Further Reading List
• Conforms to the Common Core Standards for writing and thinking critically using literary texts CCSS.W.11-12.9a

Suggested Uses in the Classroom:

1. High School English Curriculum
2. World History Course on the History of Ideas
3. Introduction to Philosophy Course
4. Theory of Knowledge Course
5. Introduction to Philosophy Course
6. Student Advisory Course on Belief
7. A Lesson on Secularism, Romanticism in Literature, or Existentialism

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