Lysistrata Lesson Plan

Questions of Translation

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will be able to consider the impact translation has on the way they perceive a piece written in another language

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4

Structure:

For last night's homework, students should have read translator Edward Einhorn's introduction. Discuss this with the whole class: what was surprising to them about what Einhorn wrote? What does it mean to translate from a script where the lines are not attributed to particular characters? What does it mean to "modernize" the humor of a play? Why do they think sex jokes might have been so consistent in Einhorn's view? How much...