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Students, utilizing video clips and Web sites, compare specific passages from original texts to moments in Broadway musicals on which they were based, analyzing similarities and differences between them. They adapt literature into a dramatic performance.

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broadway, musicals, theater, english language arts
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8th - 10th
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English Language Arts
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3 hrs
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