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Debate: Samuel Beckett and the Meaning of Life
Kind of Activity:
Classwide Discussion
Objective:
Students will think more critically about the themes of the text from a variety of perspectives.
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.3 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.4 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.6
Structure:
The teacher should ask students to prepare for another classwide debate and divide the class into three groups. The question that students will debate will be: is Samuel Beckett's famously pessimistic view of life justified?
At the outset of the activity, the teacher should give two of the three groups...
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