Six Characters in Search of an Author Lesson Plan

You're the Author

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Creatively explore metafictional techniques and ideas, as inspired by "Six Characters in Search of an Author"

Common Core Standards:

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

Structure:

In this exercise, students should compose their own Six Characters in Search of an Author: a work of metatheatre or metafiction with original characters but the same (or a comparable) premise. These stories/scripts/screenplays need not share a setting with the original play, and the premise may be altered: the goal of the assignment is to prompt students to consider how metafiction can be used to...