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Sometimes life feels like a tragic comedy. A video about the play Waiting for Godot describes the play as a tragic comedy. Viewers see a summary of the famous drama and its history before answering multiple-choice and open-ended questions and completing a digging deeper and discussion activity.
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Adaptable
Concepts
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Instructional Ideas
- Discuss the genre of the text and come up with examples of other scenarios that might fit the genre
- Read another play from the theater of the absurd, such as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and compare it to Waiting for Godot
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Pros
- Contains hyperlinks to additional information about the play
- Uses animations to enhance the video
Cons
- Only contains one discussion question, which requires that viewers have read the play
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