Day 1

Hamilton Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    Recreating History (Day 1)

    Kind of Activity:

    Long-term Project

    Objective:

    Students will be able to use Miranda's artistic choices as inspiration for their own and connect a historical event or idea with artistic creation

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.7; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.7; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.8

    Structure:

    Lin-Manuel Miranda began writing Hamilton because he was entranced by one biography. Ask students to think of a time that a historical event or story, or one person's life, made them deeply interested. Have they learned something in history class they want to know more about? Did they see a movie or listen to a song that made them wonder...

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