- THEA 232, History of Theater – Fall 2010
- Writing Assignment for THEA 232: History of Theater to 1900
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Assignments/Writing Prompts
I assign a great many plays when I teach theatre history. Early on, however, I discovered that, while students were rehearsed in reading plays as dramatic literature and as blueprints for performance, they needed some practice in reading playscripts as a historical documents. So, I developed what I call the “Cultural Document Worksheet” – a fill-in-the-blanks exercise which structures the process of thinking through the play in historical as well as formal terms. For each play assigned in the syllabus, the student has the option of completing a Cultural Document Worksheet (a certain minimum number are required each term). They are collected prior to the beginning of class and I (or my teaching assistant, should I happen to have one) evaluates them on a Credit/No-Credit basis.
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Our class has several discussion groups taught by TAs. A group project is built into the course and each of us handle this somewhat differently. I ask my students to give us a new or unusual jumping-off place for a discussion of each play we read and they rarely disappoint.
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