Daily Lessons for Teaching Sarah Kane: Complete Plays

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: Blasted, Scene 1 Sarah Kane: Complete Plays contains the five plays and one screenplay which constitute Kane's total canon. The works are characterized by themes of degradation, violence, suicide, and gallows humor. Sarah Kane (1971 - 1999) was an English playwright whose inspiration drew from expressionist theatre and Jacobean tragedy. In this lesson, students are introduced to the anthology and will research and discuss its author, Sarah...
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