





This teaching unit focuses on Act 3 of the seminal play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen with a particular focus on how the play ends and on the most important returning symbols and motifs.
The play is a particular success with IB or A-Level students, but the resources can be used with any upper school / high school class!
The unit includes:
1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz Activities: A fun, quick quiz activity to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit.
2. Nora: A Short Film Responding to A Doll’s House: This activity uses the contemporary short film response (by The Guardian) to the play, which offers a fresh perspective on the play, its ending in particular. The activity provides an opportunity to discuss the ending from a modern societal perspective and to tie it in with students’ personal responses and reflections about the ‘shocking’ ending.
3. Close Reading & Analysis Activity: Motifs in A Doll’s House (Act 3): This comprehensive activity offers a deep dive into various different scenes and moments in the play where central symbols reveal themselves to be complex, multifaceted motifs as the ending of the play is revealed. The guided, scaffolded activities allow for a scaffolded yet advanced, critical analysis of the way Ibsen masterfully develops his motifs. The activity is also designed to facilitate a connected, holistic review of the play, because students are encouraged to link symbols and motifs to character development, key themes, as well as to key issues of gender and societal constraints or conflicts in the play.
4. Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes detailed model answers for all activities and is designed to help you prepare for a perfect teaching unit.
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