The Audience: Who Can Use This Unit?
With the addition of our Musical Theater class, Middletown performing arts faculty found that our beginner-level curriculum needed realignment to provide a smoother transition into musical theater rather than simply plays. Hence, this unit is designed for high school introductory drama classes, especially those interested in incorporating musical theater into an otherwise play-heavy curriculum. However, I see easy transference to English or Social Studies classes as well. English classes may aim to utilize performance analysis as an approach to understanding a text and its relationship to its historical contexts. Likewise, social studies teachers can use this unit to help students understand how a historical period is closely attached to its respective primary sources possibly even incorporating musicals as a non-traditional primary source. Finally, political science or civics classes could use this unit to explore the evolving concept of "freedom" throughout the twentieth century in comparison to foundational texts in our country's history.
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