The Wild Duck Lesson Plan

The Forest's Revenge

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will use technology to explore the text's themes while creating compelling and persuasive visual designs.

Common Core Standards:

N/A

Structure:

For this exercise, students will be tasked with creating their own visual interpretation of Hedda's death and the enigmatic line from Old Ekdal which follows it: "the forest's revenge". This interpretation should be original, eye-catching and provocative, and be able to fit onto a poster which might be displayed in front of a theatre.

Each student should then get onto a desktop or a laptop computer. Students will work on Adobe Spark to create...