Uncle Vanya Lesson Plan

Who Even ARE All These People?

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will be able to identify all of the characters and their relationships to each other.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.6

Structure:

As a class, brainstorm a diagram connecting all of the characters by their relationships to each other. In a shared document or on the board, write the names of each character and the information known about them. Draw lines to connect the characters based on their relationships to each other. For example, Sonya is connected to Voynitsky because she is his niece (his sister's daughter) and the daughter of his...