Lesson+Plan+5

Identifying the themes and topics of the play |||| **Broad goals to which this lesson contributes:** Reading for meaning || Tableau will be evaluated by the teacher for the correspondence between the visual representation and the themes of the play. ||
 * **Lesson Plan** ||
 * **Day 5** |||| **Class/Subject:** English ENG3U || **Topic**: Reading for meaning ||
 * **Topic and focus of this lesson:**
 * **Specific outcomes for this lesson:** R and LS: 1.3, 1.6, 2.3 ||
 * **Materials: t**he play ||
 * **Agenda:**
 * 1) Reading:A note on Nanabush, and pg.9-18 (group of 4 students reads to the class: 3 characters and the stage directions reader)
 * 2) Significance of Nanabush ( a central figure in Aboriginal mythology): any gender, trickster, and fluidity of the figure.
 * 3) Circle Talk: themes of the play.
 * 4) Group work: tableau of the themes from the play : gender, city vs. the rez, economics/money
 * 5) Acting choices: short debriefing on why students chose to illustrate the themes in the particular way. ||
 * **Evaluation (formative):**