Our Town
Our Town captures with simple elegance the routine of the inhabitants of a small New England village, focusing with particular poignancy on the love and courtship of Emily Webb and George Gibbs. In style, the play is a still-life, freezing for eternity a small town that will never change, no matter how many times the production is performed. The audience hears the message: heed the time, it passes swiftly; treasure each moment with each other; store each memory for the time when there are no more moments, when the time for parting comes.
About the Series:
Novel/Drama curriculum units contain complete lesson plans with preliminary and follow-up work, teacher notes with plot summary, background, and rationale, ready-to-use worksheets, and suggested answers for student questions. These study guides encourage the development of thinking, reading, speaking, research, and writing skills as well as critical thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
Price: $19.95
Literary Form
American Drama
Student Activities
Students have many creative opportunities for role playing, dramatization, and creation/construction of a model set. They examine the lifestyles and the roles of turn-of-the-century men and women, and they compare turn-of-the-century life with contemporary life. They keep daily reading logs. Students are presented with many opportunities to think critically about the play and make connections with other literary works.
Supplementary materials include a test for each act with answer keys.
Ethical Values
- Citizenship
- Family commitment
- Peace
- Privacy
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