A View From the Bridge Lesson Plan

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Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

to understand the elements of a play, to think critically about a play's set design, to use visual and critical analysis

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.7; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.2

Structure:

As students have seen already in past activities, full productions of A View from the Bridge take place on stages with sets. Briefly explain to students that sets help create the world of a play, and remind them of the sets they saw in the productions from Day 2’s classroom activity (“Comparing Productions”).

Next, show them this short clip from Ivo van Hove’s production: ...