Classdigitools - Week 5 - Task 2
Using Plays to teach about characters, plots, setting and conflict in Dramatic
Tragedy
2. Think of you own teaching contexts. Which story would you choose to work
with your students?
3. Share with the group how you'd adapt the original lesson plan to use
with your students. Include in your post the plot you'd choose, and how you'd
carry out the reading/writing activity with your students.
This amazing lesson plan provided a lot of
interesting tools to be used and activities to be carried out in class but most
of them are not suitable for my lower secondary students whose skills range
from elementary to pre-intermediate.
If I were to adapt this lesson plan,
I would choose Macbeth.
I would have my EFL pre-intermediate students
read the tragedy - an abridged version adapted to their level – together in
class. Each of them would have to play a character of the play.
Then I would probably have them
watch together the BBC animated version of the play. Images could help non-native speakers to better understand the plot and the audio could give them a hint of the musicality of Shakespeare's language.
After that, I would divide the
students in groups of five and ask them to:
create a timeline of the play’s main
events with ReadWriteThink Timeline interactive tool.
work
on the Plot Tree worksheet; they would have to determine the plot turning point,
discuss alternative outcomes and choose one by one the outcomes that lead to a
different ending.
As their final activity, they would
produce a comic strip of the play’s revised version using ReadWriteThink ComicCreator
interactive tool or another tool of their choice (Pixton, Toondoo, Bitstrips,
etc.).
