Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.
Paper: O.T. is a play "about startling contrasts & excruciatingly quiet conflict"
Objective: Students will examine the often painful realization of our place in the scheme of things as well as the beauty of our individuality.
Activity: Students will: compile lists of the contrasts and conflicts in the play; analyze the contrast between the universal and the individual in the stage manager's speeches; write a major paper on the statement: "Our Town is a play about startling contrasts and excruciatingly quiet conflicts."
