Teacher+Resources

=Teacher Resources=

1. Baer, Reid. (2009, September 21). //A Streetcar named desire//. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF6MOfabFAA

This is a pretty funny [|video], it is suppose to be funny, but please just pay attention to the beginning of the video. When it comes to setting up an introduction to a podcast, this is what you want your students to do. Granted this is an amateur podcast but the actual acting in your student's podcast should be a lot longer than the 10 or so seconds that these people recorded. The opening credits are very good because it gives credit to everyone where credit is due, and even the ending credits are pretty good, though they start to go a bit comedic towards the end.

2. Thakkar, R. (2008, March 24). //A Streetcar named desire: scene 3(part 1)//. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN0TH_DTekI

This is a very good [|podcast], created by students, which is one of the projects which these students will be doing. They do have opening credits, unfortunately it is a truly long scene and there are more than just this video, i could not find the other parts of the video so i don't know how it ends, but as far as acting goes it is very good. I think it is also pretty cool that they combined the older elements of dialogue with the newer elements like the Black Eyed Peas song. Overall it is a good example of what students can do when they work together, and i think that this is a good representation of what i want my students to do. Of course in my theater classroom props will be provided in which the students can choose what they want to use, so this scene can easily be reproduced, or the students can always pantomime the objects as well.

3.Winn, Steven. (1999, May 30). American plays stretching the borders. Retrieved from http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/05/30/PK42259.DTL

This is a pretty cool [|article] only because it is about the plays that were relevant at the turn of this century, however almost 10 years into this millennium, these plays are still relevant and pushing the boundaries. I read Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller in high school, and years later it is still relevant. This is a great article because the author gives plenty of examples of great American plays as chosen by the Tony awards ceremony, and it gives a synopsis of of a couple of the plays as well, and the subjects that they touched on. The reason i included this in my teacher resources i just in case another teacher wanted to use a different great American play for their class.

4. Rags, Book. (n.d.). //Student essays on a streetcar named desire//. Retrieved from http://www.bookrags.com/essay/A_Streetcar_Named_Desire

This is a [|website] that i found that includes about 30 different essays on symbolism in A Streetcar Named Desire. I included this in my resource page because i think it is a good idea for teachers to look at what other students have done, and what they got graded on before grading a set of papers for your first time. This is more for first year teachers, that have yet to grade any essays and might need a few examples in order to get jump started. I think this is a good site because it gives you all sorts of papers from good ones to bad ones, so you can compare and contrast the ones that did well with the ones that didn't do so well.

5. //The Internet movie database//. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044081/

This is a pretty cool [|website] for those teachers that like to show movies to their students. I actually have watched this movie myself, my teacher actually showed me this movie in high school. I think this is a good website because it not only gives a review of the movie but it gives you a synopsis of the play, it gives you the cast, when it was made, user ratings, and fun facts about the movie. I think this is a wonderful website to find movies to show your students because it gives you parental ratings as well. Look over this website and i think you will see why i chose to add this to my resource page.

6.Furio, Dr. (n.d.). //The United states: 1940's//. Retrieved from http://www.tqnyc.org/2005/NYC05

This is a cool [|website] full of fun facts and interactive things to do. It is good for a teacher to read up on the time period of the play, and i think this a good website showing what was going on in that time period. It provides information ranging from famous people to fashion, it even gives you a fun interactive quiz. It's important especially for the students to understand the past and what was going on when this play was written to understand how to adapt it to the present. I think this website is a good representation of what was going on in that time period.