The Chairs Lesson Plan

The implicit drama of public conversation

Kind of Activity:

Performance

Objective:

Using their own transcriptions of public conversations, students will create scripts and act them out in order to understand Ionesco's parodying of human socializing in the play.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.6

Structure:

Together as a class, students may identify the ways that Ionesco parodies,...