The Pillowman Lesson Plan

Scene Study, Day 2 - Performance

Kind of Activity:

Performance

Objective:

Students will be able to discuss the artistic choices made in performance

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.7; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.4

Structure:

Students should be given 15 minutes to rehearse and set up, then should perform for each other the scenes they began working on yesterday.

After each scene, or after all of the performances (depending on your class's attention span), discuss the interpretations and choices that each group made. If two groups performed the same scene, what were the similarities and differences between their choices? If two different actors performed...