Before the Coffee Gets Cold Lesson Plan

Live Talk Show with the Characters

Kind of Activity:

Performance

Objective:

Students will use their knowledge of the novel, particularly its characters, to come up with questions and answers that directly relate to those characters' lives/histories/personalities.

Structure:

Assign members of the class to play the part of the novel's major characters, such as Kazu, Kei, Nagare, Kohtake, Fugasi, Hirai, and Fumiko. Then assign an interviewer. These students will be performing a live interview in the style of a talk show. The rest of the class will be the studio audience. They will also be writing the interview questions that the interviewer will pick at random to ask...