Happily ever after? Exploring character, conflict, and plot in dramatic tragedy
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A lesson plan for Grade 10 English Language Arts
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- 10
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- IRA/NCTE
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In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students pick a turning point of a tragedy and show how the action of the play would have been significantly altered had a different decision been made or a different action taken. Teachers can test students' content knowledge and understanding of conflicts within the play while also challenging their creativity and their understanding of plot.
This lesson focuses on Shakespearean tragedy, but the lesson plan can be used with any tragedy that students have read. This activity can also be used as a book report alternative, where students are each exploring a different text. This lesson incorporates several interactive activities, including an interactive Plot Diagram.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 10 — English II
- Goal 4: The learner will critically interpret and evaluate experiences, literature, language, and ideas.
- Objective 4.03: Analyze the ideas of others by identifying the ways in which writers:
- introduce and develop a main idea.
- choose and incorporate significant, supporting, relevant details.
- relate the structure/organization to the ideas.
- use effective word choice as a basis for coherence.
- achieve a sense of completeness and closure.
- Objective 4.04: Evaluate the information, explanations, or ideas of others by:
- identifying clear, reasonable criteria for evaluation.
- applying those criteria using reasoning and substantiation.
- Objective 4.03: Analyze the ideas of others by identifying the ways in which writers:
