The Prince Lesson Plan

Performance: Machiavelli and His Predecessors

Kind of Activity:

Performance

Objective:

Students will creatively interpret ideas presented in the text in an original production.

Common Core Standards:

N/A

Structure:

For this exercise, the teacher should break up the class into 3 groups of at least 4 people (the groups can have different numbers of students if so desired). These groups will work on writing and staging a comedic sketch in which Machiavelli has an argument about his political theories with some of the philosophers who came before him, such as:

- Aristotle

- Plato

- Cicero

- Jesus Christ

Students will be required to create a short "script" that they will...