Blasted Lesson Plan

Anticipation Guide

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to use evidence to predict what they believe is coming in the play

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.1; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.5

Structure:

What are students' first impressions of Blasted? Have they read plays that seem similar to this before? If so, what distinguishes Blasted? (Possible answers might include the blatancy of Ian's racism and homophobia, the lack of commentary on it in the script given the time period in which it was written, Cate's ambivalence about the romance and the romantic setting, the explicit discussion of sex, or that nothing is distinctive—...