Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Lesson Plan

Scene Work (Day 2)

Kind of Activity:

Performance

Objective:

Students will be able to engage with Albee's text in its intended form

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.4; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.2

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. Since there are very few characters in this play, the class will see multiple interpretations of the same role—how did one Martha differ from another? What...