Alexander Hamilton: Concert Analysis
Students in a normal high school setting might not know of a culture and hit that is played out now in the Richard Rodgers Theatre. The show is about American history and about the life of Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton is an American musical that should be used as a history lesson for high school students.
With all the education material out there I found something that was very interesting to why this show has as an educational took. Educational work Magazine tell us this “the decline of civic education and students’ knowledge of US history is alarming. One recent survey found that only 43 percent of the nation’s 17-year-olds were able to place the Civil War within the correct 50-year time period”. (Gorman 2015) This Fact is very alarming to me as a student but also …show more content…
Miranda Talks about how the he felt to be putting on a matinée for the students and what they learned from the show. He says this, “Preforming a musical for one of those conventional audiences and you know what to expect. Put it on for a couple hundred kids who have never set foot in a theater before… and there is no guessing.” (Lin- Manuel Maranda 2016) This quote shows us as follower a man who wrote this show didn’t know what to expect from a bunch of inner city kids to see the show. Well the chapter goes on to say this about what the kids did in the class room to get ready for the show. “At for Hamilton high, Susan Willerman ask students to choose and issue they were passionate about, then improvise words and movement that allow them to present different views on the issue to their classmates.” (Lin- Manuel Maranda 2016) This was after the kids had seen the show they used the inspiration that they show on stage and built paper and movement to relay their thought and
With all the education material out there I found something that was very interesting to why this show has as an educational took. Educational work Magazine tell us this “the decline of civic education and students’ knowledge of US history is alarming. One recent survey found that only 43 percent of the nation’s 17-year-olds were able to place the Civil War within the correct 50-year time period”. (Gorman 2015) This Fact is very alarming to me as a student but also …show more content…
Miranda Talks about how the he felt to be putting on a matinée for the students and what they learned from the show. He says this, “Preforming a musical for one of those conventional audiences and you know what to expect. Put it on for a couple hundred kids who have never set foot in a theater before… and there is no guessing.” (Lin- Manuel Maranda 2016) This quote shows us as follower a man who wrote this show didn’t know what to expect from a bunch of inner city kids to see the show. Well the chapter goes on to say this about what the kids did in the class room to get ready for the show. “At for Hamilton high, Susan Willerman ask students to choose and issue they were passionate about, then improvise words and movement that allow them to present different views on the issue to their classmates.” (Lin- Manuel Maranda 2016) This was after the kids had seen the show they used the inspiration that they show on stage and built paper and movement to relay their thought and