The Seagull Lesson Plan

Scene Study, Day 2

Kind of Activity:

Performance

Objective:

Students will be able to understand Chekhov's text in its intended form

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.4; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.5; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.6; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.6

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. Were the actors attentive to Chekhov's stage directions? If not, why not—why did they make those...