Read Scene 1.
Common Core Objectives
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Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.
Content Summary for Teachers
Scene 1
Harold Pinter’s 1957 play The Room features six characters: Rose, a 60-year-old woman; Bert Hudd, Rose’s 50-year-old husband; Mr. Kidd, the Hudds’ elderly landlord; Mr. and Mrs. Sands, a young couple; and a mysterious blind visitor named Riley. The stage is set as a room in a large house that is subdivided into rental suites. The “bedsit”...