The Once and Future King Lesson Plan

Enacting Dialogue

Kind of Activity:

Performance

Objective:

Students read aloud dialogue from the book to bring to life their understanding of the text.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA.LITERACY..RL.9-10.3 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.7

Structure:

Have pairs of students rehearse and read aloud for the class a part of the dramatic dialogue in Chapter 11, which begins "Good evening, Guenever" and ends with the last lines of the chapter. This is a long dialogue and may be divided up among student pairs.

Student pairs should rehearse until they feel that they can project the tone and intent of each character's dialogue.

Have students pairs read their part of the dialogue aloud...