Lesson Plan on "Atonement" by Ian McEwan, Schulbücher

Unterrichtsentwurf aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Englisch - Pädagogik, Didaktik, Sprachwissenschaft, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The following lesson plan will refer to the novel Atonement by Ian McEwan and the movie of the same title directed by Joe Wright. The story is about a 13-year-old girl named Briony Tallis who has a vivid fantasy and one day sees her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, the son of a family servant, at the fountain in front of the house. She does not understand what is going on between Cecilia and Robby, misinterprets the scene and a series of misunderstandings is set in motion that causes lasting repercussions for all of them. After the fountain scene, Briony reads a letter from Robby to Cecilia, that has a sexual overtone, and so she concludes that he must be a maniac. Then she sees Robbie and Cecilia in a dark corner of the family's library having sex,.