ARTSEDGE: Little Women Unit

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The National Standards For Arts Education:

Music (5-8)
Standard 8: Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts

Theater (5-8)
Standard 3: Designing by developing environments for improvised and scripted scenes

Theater (5-8)
Standard 6: Comparing and incorporating art forms by analyzing methods of presentation and audience response for theatre, dramatic media (such as film, television, and electronic media), and other art forms

Visual Arts (5-8)
Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes

Other National Standards:

Language Arts III (6-8) Standard 1: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process

Language Arts III (6-8) Standard 2: Uses the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing

Language Arts III (6-8) Standard 4: Gathers and uses information for research purposes

Language Arts III (6-8) Standard 6: Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of literary texts

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Little Women Unit

Unit Overview:

This unit revolves around Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women. The Marche sisters loved the theater and these lessons focus on the elements necessary for a production: costuming, the setting, and the actual Melodrama so popular at the time the novel was written. Using the same melodrama that the Marche sisters used in the novel students will break into groups and recreate the play, work with costuming and the Polaroid Watergraph process and create a three-dimensional mock up of the stage design.

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Little Women Unit

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Dressing Up

Acting Up, A Melodrama

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Little Women Unit

Unit Overview:

Lesson Overviews:

Dressing Up

Acting Up, A Melodrama

Integrated Subjects:
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