Play Analysis Guides
A Midsummer Night's Dream Tic Tac Toe
Complete three of nine projects on A Midsummer Night's Dream to make a tic-tac-toe! Includes a rubric for assessment.
Analysis and Exercise - A Streetcar Named Desire
An Analysis and Exercise guide to Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Analysis and Exercise - All My Sons
An Analysis and Exercise Guide to Arthur Miller's "All My Sons."
Analysis and Exercise - Death of a Salesman
An Analysis and Exercise Guide for Arthur Miller's "Death of A Salesman."
Analysis and Exercise - Our Town
An Analysis and Exercise Guide to Thorton Wilder's play "Our Town."
Analysis and Exercise: A Raisin in the Sun
An Analysis and Activities Guide on A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Use this Guide in conjunction with classroom study of the play.
Ancient Greek Theatre: Agamemnon
This resource includes a guide to Agamemnon including Characters, Synopsis, Themes, Questions and Activities.
Ancient Greek Theatre: Oedipus Rex
This resource for Oedipus Rex includes Characters, Synopsis, Themes, Questions and Activities.
Ancient Greek Theatre: Medea
This resource for Medea includes Characters, Synopsis, Themes, Questions and Activities
Close Reading Pre-Study Exercise
Use this close reading pre-study exercise for in-depth comprehension.
One Question and Rubric: Shakespeare
The format is simple. One question, one answer, and a rubric all on the same sheet. Use these answers as exit slips, as a follow up written assignment after a class discussion, or as a mid-unit check in. Covers Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet: Prince of Denmark, The Tempest, Othello, Macbeth, and The Taming of the Shrew.
One Question and Rubric: Tennessee Williams
The format is simple. One question, one answer, and a rubric all on the same sheet. Use these answers as exit slips, as a follow up written assignment after a class discussion, or as a mid-unit check in. There are questions for A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie.
Pre-Read Text Scavenger Hunt
If you’re about to study a play, start the process with a text scavenger hunt. Have students look at the text in a unique way.
She Kills Monsters: Reading Questions
She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen is a play that comes up time and time again in our drama class communities. To that end, we wanted to provide questions for reading the play in the classroom.
• The Reading Questions provide pre- and post-reading questions for the play as well as questions throughout.
• The Close-Reading Questions provide in-depth text-dependent questions for one scene of the play.
The Crucible Tic Tac Toe
Complete three of nine projects on The Crucible to make a tic-tac-toe! Includes a rubric for assessment.
