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Waiting for Godot Teacher Resource Pack - 9780860032762

Waiting for Godot Teacher Resource Pack

Clare Middleton

$191.77

ISBN-13: 9780860032762
Published: 12/06/2003
Available Stock: 0

Overview

Extensively researched, photocopiable material to assist your teaching of set texts with the AS and A2 specifications. The pack can be used as the basis of delivering lessons, for student research and preparation, for follow-up homework, or as cover work in the case of teacher absence.

CONTENTS

Contexts
A brief biography of Samuel Beckett
Beckett’s work
The theatrical context of the play
‘Postmodernism’ by Bernard O’Donoghue
Other key contexts for reading Waiting for Godot
Activities
Short plays: teacher notes
Short plays 1: Breath
Short plays 2: Come and Go
Short plays 3: Play
Essay questions on shorter plays
Lucky and his speech
Dialogue and silence
Circus, film and music-hall influences
Symbols
Ambiguity and the key themes in the play
Vladimir and Estragon
Assessment focus
Assessment information sheet
Essay questions and sample answer
Important quotations
Formative assessment: marking and analysing a student essay
Mark band descriptors
Resources
Summaries and commentary
‘Storytelling and silence in the plays of Samuel Beckett’ by Michael Thomas
‘Approaching Waiting for Godot’ by David Parfitt
‘Presence of the past in Waiting for Godot’ by Laurence Coupe
Obituaries
‘Writer “born astride a grave” leaves bleak artistic legacy’
by David Lister
‘At odds with ends’ by Eric Griffiths
References and further reading

FEATURES

Photocopiable resources to save the busy literature teacher hours of preparation time

Provide an invaluable source of thoroughly researched material

Create opportunties for a more student-centered learning approach

Improve and enhance student knowledge and appreciation of set texts

Provide a solution to specialist staff absence