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Spotlighting Performance
Kind of Activity:
Performance
Objective:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3 ; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1.B
Common Core Standards:
Help students understand how staging enhances and alters a written a play
Structure:
Remind the students of Shaffer's "Note on the Text." Perhaps have them read it aloud, or simply ask someone to summarize it. Then break the class up into pairs. Each team can choose which of the following they'd like to prepare and perform:
Alan's monologue in Act I Scene 22, starting at "The hosts of Jodhpur"
Dysart's monologue in Act II Scene 22
Dora's monologue in Act II Scene 23
First, they should choose which of them will perform, and...
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