On the board, I introduced and defined the terms protagonist and antagonist . I then placed in question format "Who is the protagonist in the play? Who is the person who is asked to perform a miracle?" Lena then wrote out answers to these questions in complete sentences as we examined why the protagonist is Annie Sullivan ,not Helen. We repeated the same exercise with the question, "Who is the antagonist ?" I then distributed a crossword puzzle based on the play that required Lena to apply the term protagonist as well as to recognize the role of the characters, and the basic plot outline. She did very well with the puzzle. I further distributed a form of multiple choice test wherein a question describes a scene from the play as if the questioner were in the audience and then asks about the characters . Again, Lena excelled in this exercise.