Our Town Lesson Plan

If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:

1. 1

   Students will be able to understand how complex themes, ideas, and characters develop from the beginning to the end of Our Town and analyze them using various media and a range of perspectives.

2. 2

   Students will be able to formulate complex arguments about Our Town using both textual evidence and outside research to support their own ideas.

3. 3

   Students will be able to relate the artistic choices made in Our Town to choices made by adapters (or by the students themselves as adapters) in other artistic forms or media.

4. 4

   Students will be able to...