Lysistrata Lesson Plan

Contemporary Adaptation (Day 2)

Kind of Activity:

Performance

Objective:

Students will be able to present their work and respond to each other's

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.6

Structure:

Students should by now have revised and rehearsed their contemporary adaptations of Lysistrata from the previous day. They should perform them for each other.

After each scene, or after all of the performances (depending on your class's attention span), discuss the interpretations and choices that each group made. What aspects of the original Lysistrata show up in their adaptation? What are the major differences? How did they decide that...