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Second Grade Play Entertains and Teaches
The 57 second graders took their audiences back and forth in time, playing post-Civil War era Buffalo Soldiers, Harlem Renaissance cultural figures, Negro League baseball players, and civil rights heroes. Carter G. Woodson guided school founder John McDonogh through these periods in history that McDonogh was not alive to see.
Second grade teacher Nancy Lewis wrote the play to focus the second graders on four lesser-known subjects in American history. She and her three colleagues designed lessons around the four themes and team-taught them. Students enjoyed dramatizing what they had learned in class.
On stage with professionally constructed sets that rotated when scenes changed, the second graders paid homage to Rosa Parks, W.E.B. DuBois, Duke Ellington, Satchel Paige, Marian Anderson, Rube Foster, Harriet Tubman, and James Weldon Johnson, among others. They sang and danced to music threaded throughout the play, everything from opera to jazz to the childhood favorite "Old MacDonald."
With its subtle social discourse and sophisticated allusions, "John McD. and Carter G." taught its audiences, too.
The 57 second graders took their audiences back and forth in time, playing post-Civil War era Buffalo Soldiers, Harlem Renaissance cultural figures, Negro League baseball players, and civil rights heroes. Carter G. Woodson guided school founder John McDonogh through these periods in history that McDonogh was not alive to see.
Second grade teacher Nancy Lewis wrote the play to focus the second graders on four lesser-known subjects in American history. She and her three colleagues designed lessons around the four themes and team-taught them. Students enjoyed dramatizing what they had learned in class.
On stage with professionally constructed sets that rotated when scenes changed, the second graders paid homage to Rosa Parks, W.E.B. DuBois, Duke Ellington, Satchel Paige, Marian Anderson, Rube Foster, Harriet Tubman, and James Weldon Johnson, among others. They sang and danced to music threaded throughout the play, everything from opera to jazz to the childhood favorite "Old MacDonald."
With its subtle social discourse and sophisticated allusions, "John McD. and Carter G." taught its audiences, too.