The Eumenides Lesson Plan

Investigation of a Radio Adaptation

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will compare and contrast scenes from a radio adaptation of the play with the text to look for differences and determine the interpretive decisions that went into making this adaptation.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.1; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.4; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.2

Structure:

In 2014, BBC Radio 3 adapted to radio all three plays in The Oresteia. You can access their recording of The Eumenides (title The Furies) here. Listen through and find the sections that you would like to clip, then listen to them again...