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This The Federal Theatre Project: Analyzing Conflict Among Relief, Art, and Politics in 1930s America lesson plan also includes:
- The Federal Theatre Project: Analyzing Conflict Among Relief, Art, and Politics in 1930s America (.html)
- Resource Sheet #1: Relief Programs of the New Deal: A Comparison (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2A: Is This the Time and Place? (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2B: Mr. Rice's Resignation (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2C: Negro Version of Macbeth (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2D: African Theater Group: "Bassa Moona" (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2E: Demise of the Federal Arts Project (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2F: Federal Theater Players on the Air (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2G: Puppet Artists at Work (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2H: View of a Tent (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2I: Young Tramps (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2J: Theater as Social Action (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2K: Halle Flanagan Before The Special Committee on Un-American Activities (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2L: Milton Meltzer Interview (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2M: Wallace Stark Before The Special Committe on Un-American Activities (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2N: Halle Flanagan Before Hearings. Special Committee on Un-American Activities #2 (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #3: The Achievements and Problems of the Federal Theater Project (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #4: Assessment (.pdf)
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In the effort to soothe the suffering of the Great Depression, New Deal programs funded a variety of approaches - including a theater project that proved controversial! Using documents such as oral histories, as well as photographs of the project's productions, pupils examine the potential government-funded art has to both heal problems and create dissension. The resource includes primary sources, as well as worksheets, to guide learning.
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- Discuss whether the government should fund the arts using the primary sources
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- Learners need access to a history text book
- Some language in the documents is racist
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- Resource highlights a lesser-known project of the New Deal
- Questions prompt class members to connect learning of history to contemporary policy
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