ENG4U Unit 4: Doors That Slam

Students map power in the Helmer household, stage the letter-box and the tarantella, chart Helmer's reversal on a temperature graph, debate Nora's exit and Ibsen's forced alternative ending, and rewrite the ending for three decades. In Trifles they investigate the clues the men dismiss and hold a jury room on the women's choice.

Assessment of learning: a staged reading with a director's note and a missing scene or epilogue with a rationale, with rubrics.

Lessons

1. Larks and Squirrels
2. A Secret Loan
3. The Tarantella
4. The Letter
5. The Door Slams
6. A Kitchen Investigation
7. A Jury of Her Peers
8. Rehearsal Studio
9. The Missing Scene
10. Staged Readings

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 to 18 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets
• A 53-page Play Reader with both plays complete
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview and the summative tasks and rubrics