A View From the Bridge Lesson Plan

Lights, Camera, Action!

Kind of Activity:

Role Play

Objective:

to practice making directorial choices; to see the play come to life on stage; to practice close-reading of a short passage

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1

Structure:

As discussed in previous activities, reading a screenplay only gives us half the full picture of the play as an art form. The play truly comes to life on the stage rather than on the page. For this activity, divide students into groups of three, giving each student in the group a number from one to three. Explain that there will be three rounds of ten minutes each. For Round One, student #1 is the director, student #2 is Eddie,...