Propaganda, Persuasion and Play-writing Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee Adapted from McDougal Littell Conversation: Lessons of History Includes links to Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts Download Inherit the Wind Lessons  Though based on the famous Scopes “Monkey Trail” where William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow clashed over a [...]

Following workshops presented by the then, California Playwrights Project, I adapted what I’d learned into this set of notes used for writing one act plays based literature students already have read.  I first used ideas as the culminating activity for a unit on mythology and adapted the assignments another time for more general short story [...]