Catch-22, Joseph Heller's send-up of military organizational bureaucracy, provides readers with an opportunity to consider the importance of the anti-hero. Class members fill out a worksheet comparing and contrasting the qualities of heroes and anti-heroes found in Yossarian.

Concepts

heroes, world war ii, satire, irony, american literature

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Ask class members to use their worksheets as the basis of a compare/contrast essay

Classroom Considerations

• Requires a class set of the novel
• Provides a PDF of the "Compare and Contrast Antiheroes" worksheet
• Readers should be familiar with the antihero concept (think Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye)
• Presumes that class members have finished reading the novel

Pros

• Includes a detailed lesson plan and links to other resources in the series

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.11-12.1 RL.11-12.3 RL.11-12.6