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Lesson Plan Ideas for Teachers
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Click here for a sample lesson plan
for "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
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lesson plan for kindergarten students with standards
Andalusia, Home of Flannery O’Connor
Andalusia is the picturesque farm where the highly acclaimed American author Flannery O’Connor lived in Milledgeville, Georgia from 1951 until her death in 1964. O’Connor was living at Andalusia when she completed all of her published books of fiction: two novels and two collections of short stories. This 544-acre estate is composed of gently rolling hills divided into a farm complex, hayfields, pasture, ponds, creeks, wetlands, and forests. At Andalusia, O’Connor found the source of many of the settings, situations, and fictional characters that are the signature of her stories.
Published Works
- Wise Blood (novel) - 1952
- A Good Man is Hard To Find (short story collection) - 1955
- The Violent Bear It Away (novel) - 1960
- Everything That Rises Must Converge (short story collection) - 1965
- Mystery and Manners (essays) - 1969
- The Complete Stories, winner of the 1971 National Book Award for Fiction
- The Habit of Being (letters) - 1979, winner of the National Books Critics Circle Award
- Flannery O'Connor, Collected Works (The Library of America series) - 1988
Lesson Plan Ideas
The following ideas based on O'Connor and/or Andalusia could be developed into units of study for most grade levels.
- A major American author and her surroundings.
- Elements of place, landscape, and agrarian settings in Southern fiction.
- Catholic writers in the predominantly Protestant South.
- Religious themes in literature.
- Historic preservation and architectural restoration.
- Raising domestic birds (peafowl, chickens, ducks, geese, guineas, and swans).
- Historical interests: plantations, 19th century architecture, dairy farming, cattle production.
- Natural history: wildlife, native plants, ecosystems, climax forests, land management.
- Environmental interests: urban sprawl, land conservation, endangered species.
- Economic interests: women business owners, women writers, farmers, agriculture.
- Photography: 19th century houses, early 20th century farm structures, wildlife, rural landscape.
Lesson Plan Resources on the Web
The following external links are provided as a service to educators; however, the inclusion of any site does not imply endorsement by the Flannery O'Connor - Andalusia Foundation. Please report bad links or send comments to wiseblood@andalusiafarm.org
- Click here for a complete lesson plan entitled Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Who's the Real Misfit for grades 9-12 provided by EDSITEment, a search engine for educational material on specific humanities topics provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Click here for a page sponsored by DePaul University including a lesson plan entitled Story vs. Plot: Creative writing lesson plan for Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" and "Greenleaf."
- Click here for a page sponsored by Georgetown University covering general topics of O'Connor's work and offering classroom issues and strategies, major themes, historical perspectives, along with questions for reading and discussion.
- Click here for a summary and discussion questions for the story "Greenleaf" on the Random House Publishers website for high school teachers.
- Click here for an interesting exercise in creating literary characters based on O'Connor's techniques in the story "Good Country People" provided by teacher.scholastic.com.
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Click here for a
guide to Flannery O'Connor research provided by the Special Collections Department of the library at Georgia College & State University.
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Click here for an extensive bibliography of Flannery O'Connor criticism provided by the Special Collections Department of the library at Georgia College & State University.
- Click here for the New Georgia Encyclopedia, where you will find biographical information about O'Connor along with commentary on her fiction.
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