The Playboy of the Western World Lesson Plan

Read Act 3.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.9
   Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1
   Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class,...