This document provides a lesson plan for a high school music appreciation class using the opera La Traviata. It will: 1) Have students listen to a podcast on the plot of La Traviata and take notes to analyze the characters. 2) Break students into groups to critically review and assess productions of the opera on YouTube. 3) Assign homework where students comment on tweets about the music in relation to characters and respond to classmates on Twitter, submitting a report. The plan is to have students understand the plot of La Traviata and critically analyze the music in relation to characters through various classroom activities and online discussion over the course of a week.