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Scripting the past: Exploring women's history through film

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A lesson plan for Grades 11–12 Theatre Arts IV

Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

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11–12
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National Endowment for the Humanities

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In this lesson, students employ the screenwriter's craft to gain a fresh perspective on historical research, learning how filmmakers combine scholarship and imagination to bring historical figures to life and how the demands of cinematic storytelling can shape our view of the past.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Theatre Arts Education (2001)

Grades 9–12 — Theatre Arts IV

  • Goal 5: The learner will research by finding information to support informal or formal productions.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 11 — English III

  • Goal 2: The learner will inform an audience by using a variety of media to research and explain insights into language and culture.
    • Objective 2.01: Research ideas, events, and/or movements related to United States culture by:
      - locating facts and details for purposeful elaboration.
      - organizing information to create a structure for purpose, audience, and context.
      - excluding extraneous information.
      -providing accurate documentation.

Grade 12 — English IV

  • Goal 1: The learner will express reflections and reactions to print and non-print text as well as to personal experience.
    • Objective 1.01: Compose reflective texts that give the audience:
      - an understanding of complex thoughts and feelings.
      - a sense of significance (social, political, or philosophical implications).
      - a sense of encouragement to reflect on his or her own ideas.
  • Goal 3: The learner will be prepared to enter issues of public concern as an advocate.
    • Objective 3.01: Research and define issues of public concern by:
      - using a variety of resources such as the media center, on-line resources, interviews, and personal reflection.
      -specifying the nature of an issue, including the various claims made and the reasoning that supports these claims.
    • Objective 3.02: Organize and deliver an argument so that an intended audience respects it by:
      - wording the claim clearly.
      - specifying reasons in support of the claim that are likely to be convincing.
      -- adopting an appropriate tone and stance toward the issue.