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Lights! Cameras! Action!: Creating a Drama About the Lyme Art Colony Lesson PlanLights! Cameras! Action!: Creating a Drama About the Lyme Art Colony Lesson Plan
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Lights! Cameras! Action!: Creating a Drama About the Lyme Art Colony

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Discuss the lives of artists in the Lyme Art Colony in the 1900s with this resource. Young historians write and perform a short scene depicting individuals who lived in the Griswold boardinghouse, used by the colony artists. They use the Florence Griswold Museum's online resources to gather information about the people of the art colony.

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search engines, Research, the internet, elements of drama, Drama, literary elements, image analysis

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1900s art, lyme art colony, write a play, illustration meaning, search tools, scenes, elements of drama, english language arts
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4th - 7th
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English Language Arts
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5 days
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Project-Based Learning
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