A Teacher's Guide to Our Town

Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter

Fiction & Literature, Drama, American, Nonfiction, Entertainment
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Author: Thornton Wilder, Amy Jurskis ISBN: 9780062374332
Publisher: Harper Perennial Publication: January 27, 2015
Imprint: Harper Perennial Language: English
Author: Thornton Wilder, Amy Jurskis
ISBN: 9780062374332
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publication: January 27, 2015
Imprint: Harper Perennial
Language: English

For teachers

We know that the Common Core State Standards are encouraging you to reevaluate the books that you assign to your students. To help you decide which books are right for your classroom, each free ebook in this series contains a Common Core–aligned teaching guide and a sample chapter.

This free teaching guide for Our Town by Thornton Wilder is designed to help you put the new Common Core State Standards into practice.

"Taking as his material three periods in the history of a placid New Hampshire town, Mr. Wilder has transmuted the simple events of human life into universal reverie. He has given familiar facts a deeply moving, philosophical perspective. . . . Our Town is one of the finest achievements of the current stage."—Brooks Atkinson

Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the town of Grover 's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.

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For teachers

We know that the Common Core State Standards are encouraging you to reevaluate the books that you assign to your students. To help you decide which books are right for your classroom, each free ebook in this series contains a Common Core–aligned teaching guide and a sample chapter.

This free teaching guide for Our Town by Thornton Wilder is designed to help you put the new Common Core State Standards into practice.

"Taking as his material three periods in the history of a placid New Hampshire town, Mr. Wilder has transmuted the simple events of human life into universal reverie. He has given familiar facts a deeply moving, philosophical perspective. . . . Our Town is one of the finest achievements of the current stage."—Brooks Atkinson

Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the town of Grover 's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.

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