1. Asking Questions Below, we
have provided questions for discussion. Students should
be asked, before turning to these questions, to provide
their own. These may cover the whole play or sections
they are assigned, perhaps in groups.
2. Directing, Producing, Reviewing
If students have read the stories from which the plays
have been adapted, they can try out their skills as
script adapters and directors. Before they listen,
they can try writing a scene or listing appropriate
actors, actresses, and "sound props." After hearing
the plays, they can evaluate the choices that professionals
made in producing and directing the plays. They can
also write reviews. Looking at reviews of plays in
newspapers can provide models of what reviewers look
for in a good dramatic performance.
3. Dramatizing The plays might
also provide models for students to use in adapting
other written stories in their literature curriculum
for radio drama. They might even turn their own stories,
as well as some they have read in class, into scripts.
They can also write their own original plays, drawing
on the devices they have discovered through studying
these plays.
4. Researching We have provided
some general sources for students and teachers to
use in learning more about American women writers
and their history. Students can be encouraged to look
for other "Scribbling Women" writers whose works have
been forgotten, ignored, or dismissed. Individual
research can teach students more about authorship,
about culture, about women's lives, and about the
many dimensions of human relationships that make for
life's abiding dramas.
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by Theme]
[Before We Listen. What Are
We Listening For?]
[While We Listen.
How Do We Participate in the Action]
