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Women of the Past is a program for elementary school students in grades 2 through 5. The program is designed to use the performing arts to support the core curriculum in the classroom. The program gives students hands-on experience by showing the impact of important events in a woman's life through dramatic re-enactment. Students are assisted in choosing a particular woman in history to study and then encouraged to develop an empathy and understanding for the character by considering the courage, intelligence and diligence demonstrated by her life. The teacher and students may choose Jeanne Robert Foster, Sarah Kellogg Livingston or Inez Milholland to study based on their social studies or language arts curriculum. Prior to beginning the dramatic aspects of the program, the teacher and students become familiar with a biography packet of the woman's life and a description of background events. Based on the background material, the museum educator, teacher and students develop a brief but compelling story for the children to re-enact. Costuming is included to represent the era, as well as a sample script. The museum educator develops the story with students on their feet playing different characters and using their own language to recreate scenes from the woman's biography. The dramas are designed to present history through understanding local issues as they relate to national events.
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