Prepare your students for their trip to the virtual theater with these free resource materials.

• Artist’s Study Guide
• Talking Points for Classroom Discussion
• Classroom Activity

Easily apply these content standards in your classroom:

• 7.RL.5: Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.
• 8.RL.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
• 11-12.RI.6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.

Students select a poem they find interesting and read it out loud with a partner, emphasizing different portions to see how it changes the rhythms or meanings.