The Rake's Progress Teachers Guide - San Francisco Opera
The Rake's Progress Teachers Guide - San Francisco Opera
The Rake's Progress Teachers Guide - San Francisco Opera
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Summary of Activity<br />
Follow up from <strong>The</strong> Rake’s <strong>Progress</strong> performance. Students will be able to demonstrate<br />
understanding of plot, and use of imagination through writing, art and/or dramatic play.<br />
Objective:<br />
Students will verbally, physically and visually re-interpret the ending of Macbeth.<br />
Procedures:<br />
Drama/ Storytelling:<br />
Making a Scene<br />
Pick a scene out of the story (See Synopsis)<br />
Choose one student to portray each character<br />
Reread/ paraphrase the scene as the narrator.<br />
Encourage the students to act out their part of the scene as it comes along.<br />
Art and/or Writing:<br />
Option 1: Ask what happens after the very end of the story? How would they continue<br />
the story? Why did Tom have to die? What might have happened?<br />
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Ask them to:<br />
• Tell their ending and/or<br />
• Write down their ending and/or<br />
• Make a picture for it and/or<br />
• Act out the ending<br />
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