This lesson plan offers a practice-checked set of multilateral worksheets and teaching
proposals for reading in the class room Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. Based on the
original Lippincott's version of the novel but useful also for all other editions all
material is copyright-free ready to use and fully supplied with didactic directions and
solution proposals. Teachers have leeway to choose from a great variety of tasks based on and
enhancing different skills of their students. Thus classes can be engaged in roughly 20 lessons
with activities such as a historically contextualizing web quest inspiring close-reading and
creative-writing tasks the comprehensive reconstruction of the figure constellation the
sensible assessment of Wilde's aesthetics and an activating though moderate performance
practice. Tips and recommendations for further steps round up this teacher's manual.
