Day 1

Arms and the Man Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Students should read Act I of the play.

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4

  3. 3

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.6

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Act I

The play begins November of 1885 in a lady’s bedchamber in small-town Bulgaria at the end of the Serbo-Bulgarian War. The room is a confusing mixture of Bulgarian and Viennese decorations and furniture; the native pieces are rich...

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