Day 4

The Playboy of the Western World Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    Village Voice

    Kind of Activity:

    Creative Writing

    Objective:

    Students will design the front page of a newspaper reporting the play's events.

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.4

    Structure:

    By 1908, school attendance in Ireland had reached approximately seventy-five percent, the sign of an increase in literacy that had begun in decades prior. And given the slow speed at which news traveled at the time, and the fairly small sphere in which most people's lives operated, local stories that we may consider trivial nowadays would have been front-page news back then. The following website provides an...

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