Top Girls Lesson Plan

The New Woman

Kind of Activity:

Technology

Objective:

Students will be able to understand the historical context of Top Girls and use technology to access archives

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.7

Structure:

One key to understanding this play is understanding that while many of the themes are universal, the play was not written to be a timeless piece, but rather a comment on and lens to examine the place and time in which it was written.

Students should work independently or in groups to find resources that will give them a sense of how women living in the 1980s...