Juno and the Paycock Lesson Plan

Blocking: Use of Props

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Interpret the stage directions given by the author by diagramming how the placement and movement of objects matters to the pace of the play

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3

Structure:

Using the author's stage directions, draw up diagrams of the objects on stage and how they move over the course of the play. Explain how the movement of crockery, furniture, and people matters to what takes place on the stage, and moves the story forward. Explain what you think would happen if an object that the author tells us must move does not. How would this effect how we take in a particular action in the...