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Why Should You Read "Waiting for Godot"? Instructional VideoWhy Should You Read "Waiting for Godot"? Instructional Video
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TED-Ed
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9th - Higher Ed
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English Language Arts
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5:03
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Duration
30 mins
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Why Should You Read "Waiting for Godot"?

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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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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

plays, comedy, french literature

Additional Tags

english language arts

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

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires an account to customize the lesson

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

Common Core

RL.9-10.7 RL.9-10.10a RL.11-12.7 RL.11-12.10a

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