1. Perspective Reflective Unit

2. The physical area that encompasses the people who choose to live there

4. Thornton Wilder 1897 -1975 American novelist and playwright
Known for his unique treatment of universal themes
Believed truth could only be discovered in the lives of ordinary people

5. Our Town Written in: 1937 Genre: Realism
Realism is identified when artists/ writers attempt to capture the “real world” within their art.
Facts and Info: A three-act play modeled after several New Hampshire towns -
set in 1901.
Written as a play.

6. In Our Town, Wilder “captures the universal experience of being alive
In Our Town, Wilder “captures the universal experience of being alive.” -Donald Margulies
He examines three real, universal themes:
Daily Life Love Death

7. Wilder uses the Alienation Effect
This technique is designed to distance the audience from emotional involvement in the play through jolting reminders of the artificiality of the theatrical performance.
elaborate explanations from a “narrator”
actors stepping out of character to lecture, summarize, or sing songs
raw, “exposed” stage design.
Wilder manipulates the
Stage Manager
Staging
Setting

8. Staging Setting Minimal scenery
Guides audience to focus on the internal rather than external.
Allows the setting to be more universal.
Setting
Perpetual Present Tense:
All past, present, and future actions take place in the “here and now.”
Time is fluid

9. Stage Manager Role: Narrator and character
Purpose: The audience’s connection between the play and reality.
The stage manager encourages the audience to reflect on what they are seeing by interrupting the plot to comment on the action.

10. Dialectical Journal #1

11. Questions are more important that answers
Questions are more important that answers. If I were a fairy godmother, my gift to every child would be curiosity –Jeanne Bendick

12. Dialectical Journal #2

14. Dialectical Journal #3

15. 1. If you could upload your brain to a computer, would you do it. 2
1. If you could upload your brain to a computer, would you do it? 2. Should parents be able to edit their babies’ genes? 3. Should a driverless car kill its passenger to save five strangers? 4. What morals should we program into intelligent machines

16. Jane Crofut The Crofut Farm Grover’s Corners Sutton County
New Hampshire
United States of America
Continent of North America
Western Hemisphere
The Earth
The Solar System
The Universe
The Mind of God

17. Your name Coconino High School Flagstaff Coconino County Arizona
United States of America
Continent of North America
Western Hemisphere
The Earth
The Solar System
The Universe
The Mind of God