A Doll’s House Teaching Unit with Student Play Analysis Guide

Teach A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen with this comprehensive teaching pack designed for Years 11–12 English. This resource supports exploration of gender, societal expectations, marriage, identity, and morality, while developing students’ analytical and essay-writing skills.
The pack includes a structured teaching sequence with classroom activities and a student-focused guide on how to analyse a play, helping learners approach character, themes, language, and dramatic techniques with confidence. With a focus on social context and Ibsen’s stylistic devices, this low-prep pack is ideal for senior English classrooms.
What’s Included:
Social and historical context, including 19th-century Europe, gender roles, and the rise of realism
A structured 6 week teaching sequence with classroom activities
Analysis of key themes and characters
Stylistic and dramatic feature analysis (dialogue, stage directions, symbolism, realism)
Student guide on how to analyse a play and develop analytical responses
The files are provided as PDFs for flexibility as teachers use different formats in their classrooms. You can:
• Convert to PowerPoint: Upload the PDF to PowerPoint (File → Open) and it will automatically convert to slides.
• Use in Google Slides: Upload the PDF to Google Drive, right-click, and open with Google Slides.
• Use digitally or print: Upload the PDF to your LMS (Google Classroom, Canvas, etc.) or print it for handouts.
You could also use Canva to upload the PDF and convert and save as a PowerPoint.