The Plough and the Stars Classroom Questions

By Amy Farrell

Scene by Scene teaching resources are short books of questions, designed to save teachers time and lead to rewarding classroom experiences. Each guide is broken down by scene or chapter, to match and complement the text it accompanies. This means that the teacher is provided with a clear list of questions, at every stage of teaching the text. Th

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scene by Scene
• Release date: Nov 17, 2015
• ISBN: 9781910949368

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The Plough and the Stars

Classroom Questions

A SCENE BY SCENE TEACHING GUIDE

Amy Farrell

SCENE BY SCENE

ENNISKERRY, IRELAND

Copyright © 2015 by Amy Farrell.

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The Plough and the Stars Classroom Questions by Amy Farrell. —1st ed.

ISBN 978-1-910949-36-8 (e-book)

Contents

Characters

Act One

Summary

Points to Consider

Questions

Act Two

Summary

Points to Consider

Questions

Act Three

Summary

Points to Consider

Questions

Act Four

Summary

Points to Consider

Questions

Characters

1.What do you find out about the characters from this list?

2.What does consumptive mean?

What does this tell you about the people in the play?

3.What do you already know about Easter Week 1916?

4.What is a tenement?

What do you expect life to be like for the tenement residents?

5.What was the Irish Citizen Army?

6.What is a charwoman?

7.What was ‘The Plough and the Stars’?

What does this title lead you to expect from the play?

Act One

Summary

This Act takes place in a tenement building, in November 1915.

The characters are introduced. They bicker and squabble throughout the opening Act.