Teaching The Threepenny Opera | 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: Author: Bertolt Brecht. Today's class introduces the play The Threepenny Opera and the playwright, Bertolt Brecht. Bertolt Brecht, (February 1898 -14 August 1956) is a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht makes equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production. From his late twenties Brecht remains a life-long committed Marxist who, in developing the combined theory and practice of his...
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