"Over the Rainbow": Fantasy Lands, Dream Worlds, and Magic Kingdoms

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 16.03.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Content Objectives
  4. Conclusion
  5. Strategies
  6. Activities
  7. Appendices/PA Common Core State Standards
  8. Bibliography
  9. Endnotes

Dreaming on Imaginary Stages and Writing Imaginative Scripts: The Magical "If" Fulfilled, in "Hamilton"

Sydney Hunt Coffin

Published September 2016

Tools for this Unit:

Bibliography

Blackwell. A Dictionary of Critical Theory. London, 1996.

Http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCvdk1NG1a5u6KChPSc9k8A. "Cast of 'Hamilton' Hears Original Raps from NYC Students ABC News." YouTube. 2016. Accessed July 20, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CFsn6UZ9rM.

Fox, Patricia D. Being and Blackness in Latin America: Uprootedness and Improvisation. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006.

Gottschild, Brenda Dixon. Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.

Habell-Pallán, Michelle, and Mary Romero. Latino/a Popular Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2002.

Cbsnewswebextras. "Hamilton Cast Performs "Alexander Hamilton" at White House." YouTube. 2016. Accessed July 20, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrAKuOBWzw#t=468.682238.

Johnson, Barbara. The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.

Miranda, Lin-Manuel, and Jeremy McCarter. Hamilton: The Revolution: Being the Complete Libretto of the Broadway Musical with a True Account of Its Creation. New York: Grand Central Pub, 2016.

Negrón-Muntaner, Frances. Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2004.

Stanislavski, Constantin. An Actor's Handbook. Edited by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood. New York, NY: Theatre Arts Books, 1995.

Thompson, Ahmir. "Questlove on 'Hamilton' and Hip-Hop: It Takes One." Rolling Stone. Accessed July 20, 2016. http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/questlove-on-hamilton-and-hip-hop-it-takes-one-20150928.

Wickman, Forrest. "All the Hip-Hop References in Hamilton: A Track-by-Track Guide." Slate Magazine. 2015. Accessed July 20, 2016. http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/09/24/hamilton_s_hip_hop_references_all_the_rap_and_r_b_allusions_in_lin_manuel.html.

Comments:

Add a Comment

Characters Left: 500

Unit Survey

Feedback