Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Lesson Plan

Fractured Shakespeare #3

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to understand the process behind Stoppard's free adaptation

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.5

Structure:

Separate into the same small groups as part #2 of this exercise.

The groups will now be taking the stories they wrote in the previous day's exercise and converting them into a one-scene play. Students should take their basic plot and characters and transpose them into a dramatic form. Remind them:

1. Everything must be communicated in dialogue or stage directions, as in Stoppard's play

2. Their central character should reference...