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This Unit at a Glance:

Grade Band:

 Grades 9-12
 

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Targeted Standards:

The National Standards For Arts Education:

Dance (9-12)
Standard 7: Making connections between dance and other disciplines

Music (9-12)
Standard 8: Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts

Theater (9-12)
Standard 1: Script writing through improvising, writing, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history

Theater (9-12)
Standard 2: Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions

Theater (9-12)
Standard 5: Researching by evaluating and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices

Theater (9-12)
Standard 6: Comparing and integrating art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts, and new art forms

Visual Arts (9-12)
Standard 3: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas

Visual Arts (9-12)
Standard 4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures

Visual Arts (9-12)
Standard 6: Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines

 

Other National Standards:

Historical Understanding IV (9-12) Standard 2: Understands the historical perspective

Language Arts IV (9-12) Standard 7: Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts

 

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The Gilded Age

 
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Unit Overview:

This three-lesson sequential unit explores the history, architecture, arts and culture of American high society from the 1890s-1920s, during the Gilded Age. Using three famous Newport mansions as the focal point of the unit, students learn how the arts and the culture of society developed during this period of history.

 

Lesson Overviews:

Three Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age

Students will study the history and architecture of three Newport Mansions, placing their understanding within the cultural context of the Gilded Age.

 

Arts of the Gilded Age

Students will explore the varied art forms of the Gilded Age, then develop a creative piece to perform, present, and/or exhibit as a studio project.

 

Culture and Society of the Gilded Age

Students will research everyday life and culture during the Gilded Age, then create a short theatrical piece, based on their research, with historically-accurate characters, setting, costume, and props.

 
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