This teaching unit focuses on Act 1, Part 1 of the seminal play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen with a particular focus on exploring key aspects of the context of the play as well as the first impressions Torvald and Nora Helmer make on their audience.
The play is a particular success with IB or A-Level students, but the resources can be used with any upper school / high school class!
The unit includes:
1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz Activity: A fun, quick quiz activity to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit.
2. Digging Deeper: Warning Signs & Foreshadowing: This activity goes some depth and takes a closer look at the various hints and warning signs already in this opening scene of the play. It can be used as a way to facilitate close reading as well as to address Ibsen’s use of foreshadowing, if your students have read further.
3. Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes detailed model answers for all activities as a summary and analysis of the first scene of the play to help you prepare for a perfect lesson and to become an expert at teaching this great play.
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