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| author | Michelle Lauren Taliento |
| title | The 230 Broadway Project: Employing Playwriting and Community-Based Performance in Our Classrooms |
| abstract | This thesis primarily explores three different models of theatre arts programming for children and young adults -- after-school
programs, teaching artist residencies in schools, and a hybrid model that combines the best practices of both. In order to better understand these models, my
colleague Emma Barakat and I worked with and interviewed three separate companies: the 52nd Street Project in New York City; Writers Theatre of New Jersey in
Madison, New Jersey; and AdvantageArts, a collaborative effort between Newark, New Jersey students and Drew University students in Madison, New Jersey. Using
all of this information and thorough research on the climate of theatre arts education in the city of Newark, the state of New Jersey, and our country at large,
I created a playwriting curriculum that adheres to Common Core ELA Standards as well as National Core Arts Standards. Over the Fall 2016 semester, I taught these
lesson plans to high school students from Newark involved in the AdvantageArts program, at the Marion A. Bolden Student Center. The full contents of these lesson
plans, the materials used in them, as well as the students' final plays, are published here. My belief is that these lesson plans could be used or adapted by
secondary English and Literature teachers anywhere — but they are intended most for public school teachers, who have students with little access to other
arts education. |
| school | The College of Liberal Arts, Drew University |
| degree | B.A. (2017) |
| advisor | Lisa Brenner |
| committee | Chris Ceraso
Amy Saks-Pavese |
| full text | MLTaliento.pdf |
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