Blasted Lesson Plan

War and Violence

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

Students will be able to consider Blasted in the context of twentieth-century war literature

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.2; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.9; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.9

Structure:

The text has taken a dramatic and disturbing turn in Scene 3. The very hotel room has become a site of war and devastation; the Soldier has described the horrors he experiences and perpetrates in war and has victimized Ian horribly. Blasted was already a play about sexual violence, though that violence had only begun to appear onstage in Scene 2; now it's a play about violence and war.

A great deal of...