| "I don't go by what the law say. The law's liable to say anything. I go by if it's right or not" |
| -AUGUST
WILSON, The Piano Lesson |
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| The Fifth Grade Playwrights Festival | ||
| Each year fifth graders participate in the Philadelphia Young
Playwrights program, beginning work in November on plays they submit for competition in
the spring. Students will perform three works for parents in April. The following are excerpts from Rebecca Luzi article featured in the William Penn Charter School Magazine of Spring 2003. Click here to read the entire article. "As part of Penn Charter’s fifth grade language arts
curriculum, students participate in the Philadelphia Young Playwrights program, an annual
competition designed to encourage creativity, tolerance and the exchange of ideas among
young people. More than 1,500 area Students begin by learning about characters and dialogue, and
studying the “arc of action,” the build-up toward conflict and resolution. They
read published plays as well as plays written by other children and submitted in past
years to the competition... |