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Lesson 1 (from Part 1 (Chapters 1 - 4) )
Objective
The objective of this lesson is for students to analyze how the first piece Ryan sings for his important audition for the Met's young singers' competition relates to his own fraught relationship with his father, Cecil. Ryan chooses Banquo's aria from Verdi's opera Macbeth, a piece in which Banquo knows he and his son are about to be killed and he decides to sacrifice himself for his son. Ryan grew up with very little contact with his father and always longed for the kind of connection and love that exists between Banquo and his son. Ryan chooses to interpret the piece as more about Banquo's dignity and less about his paternal feelings for his son, an interesting choice given his own background with his own father.
Lesson
Class Discussion: In Chapter 1, which aria does Ryan decide to sing first for his audition piece for the Met's...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.3, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.1(d), 9-10.2(e), 11-12.1(d), 11-12.2(e)
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