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Much of the apathy today's young people have toward voting stems from the belief that the issue doesn't concern them. "A lot of times, we don't pay attention to politics," 18-year-old Lucia Lavoi explains. "We worry about stuff that's going on with us. But we don't understand that that is part of us."
[Dan Nichols] affirms a creative curriculum isn't necessarily an easy one. "It's been very rigorous what these students have gone through. They've done an awful lot of writing," beginning with dialogues on what they considered to be the country's most important issues and which candidates they might support. The production's skits and speeches are excerpts from papers they wrote and then compiled into a script, which Nichols notes strengthens writing skills important to college professors. "Most of these students are college-bound so we want them to be able to write," he says.Alyson Talus, a teaching artist from Chicago who's been with Working Playground for two years, says what the students learn goes beyond academics or the arts. "What's important about what we do here is that when these kids go to do anything, they're going to speak loud, they're going to speak clear, they're gonna clean up their articulation and they're gonna learn how to write and speak that writing, and that can serve them whether they never touch anything creative again."See the full content of this document
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Education and Play at Work
The director calls for the actors to take their mark. Everyone is in his or her place. The director shouts "Action!" A monologue on the landmark Brown versus Board of Education decision begins before a few fumbled lines force the cast and crew into an eruption o...
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