Unit Overview:
This unit revolves around Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women. The Marche sisters loved the theater and these lessons focus on the elements necessary for a production: costuming, the setting, and the actual Melodrama so popular at the time the novel was written. Using the same melodrama that the Marche sisters used in the novel students will break into groups and recreate the play, work with costuming and the Polaroid Watergraph process and create a three-dimensional mock up of the stage design.
Lesson Overviews:
Students research the clothing of the 1860's and pantomime getting dressed up.
In this lesson, students practice melodramatic movement.
In this lesson, the students read the melodrama written into the play Little Women aloud, interpreting the scene and designing a set to accompany it.
