Workshop/Residencies: Grade School Through High School  

Presented by: East Lynne Theater Company

Program Description

Residencies are tailored to teachers, curriculum, and/or community needs, and may be part of the classroom experience or after school. Length: 1-30 days with 5-10 most requested. The artists-in-residence are capable of creating a residency with specific goals and needs, and are accustomed to working with special populations. Workshops may be process-oriented or lead to full productions. Focus: Acting and Playwriting. Examples: Writing scenes based on historic events; Creating plays based on site specific/oral histories; Adapting famous stories; Writing plays based on personal experience and/or imagination; Performance of existing scripts.

Educational Standards Addressed

A 10-day residency developed between the PTA President, fifth grade teachers, and the artist-in-residence titled "The Civil War: A Students' Perspective," entailed the students creating and performing scenes from the Civil War. The Social Studies core curriculum content standards for New Jersey 6.3, 6.4 and 6.6 in which students are to acquire a historical understanding of political, economic and diplomatic ideas and social values that helped shape the United States, were met. This residency also directly supported the core curriculum content standards for the Language Arts Literacy 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4, and all of the Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1 through 1.5.