The Playboy of the Western World Lesson Plan

Classroom Theater

Kind of Activity:

Role Play

Objective:

Students will act out a brief scene from today's (or yesterday's) reading.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.6

Structure:

Having studied two-thirds of the play, students will now have the opportunity to act out one of their favorite scenes.

First, initiate a brief discussion with the students about the difference between reading a play and reading a novel. A play was not intended primarily to be read like a book is; it was intended to be read by actors and then performed for an audience. Students need to engage with this dimension of the text.

Group students, or allow them to group...