childhood

To Kill A Mockingbird: Empathy and Compromise

Submitted by adminSQ on Thu, 01/21/2021 - 04:21
To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about a young girl growing up in a small town in the South the 1930's.  Jean Louise Finch is the narrator and central character of the story.  Everyone calls her Scout.  The story begins when Scout is 6 years old but she tells us the story as an adult looking back on her childhood.  Because this story is narrated by an adult woman about her life as a young girl, this story is a good way to reflect on childhood as an adult.  Through Scout's eyes, we learn a lot about race, racism and justice in the American South in the early 20th Century.  But we can also appreciate even more universal themes of growing up, education, gender, fear, courage and character. 

Try To Remember from The Fantastiks (video)

Submitted by adminSQ on Wed, 10/28/2020 - 13:22

The Fantasticks is a musical comedy from 1960.  It's about two neighboring fathers who trick their children into falling in love by pretending to feud.

The first musical number of the show is "Try to Remember," a song about nostalgia.  In the song, the audience is invited to reminisce and reflect on their childhood and growing up. 

Jerry Orbach sang the song in the role of "El Gallo"

The Fantastiks

Submitted by adminSQ on Wed, 10/28/2020 - 13:22

The Fantasticks is a musical comedy from 1960.  It's about two neighboring fathers who trick their children into falling in love by pretending to feud.

The show's original off-Broadway production ran a total of 42 years (until 2002) and 17,162 performances, making it the world's longest-running musical.

It's typically staged with a very sparse set consisting of a table and ladders to represent the neighboring bedrooms.

Winnie the Pooh

Submitted by adminSQ on Thu, 07/09/2020 - 14:21
This story reminds us how Winnie-the-Pooh comes down the stairs, "bump, bump, bump," behind Christopher Robin.  We can use it to explore memories of Pooh as a character from the pages of the books.  But it can also be a way to talk about childhood, childhood friendships, and the feelings youth. 
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West Side Story was an acclaimed and popular Broadway musical in 1959 and then Hollywood film in 1961.  Based on the story of Romeo and Juliette, it is the story of an ill-fated and impossible love between Tony and Maria whose families and communities are at war with each other.