Teaching Amadeus | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Students will learn a rough guide to the history of western theater. (Only venture into Ancient Egypt and Greece if you feel this is appropriate for your class.) They will appreciate how the staging of Amadeus fits in with this history.

1) 1) Teacher mini-lecture.
-- Provide illustrations--from Medieval mystery plays to Shakespeare's Globe (thrust stage) to 18th-20th century Realism to German Expressionism to the present. (read more)