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"Laura Ingalls Wilder:
Growing Up on the Prairie" -
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
at 9:30 am
(Grades 1-3) & 12 pm (Grades 3-5);
1 hour; $8
This uplifting musical from ArtsPower, last at the Flynn in 1996, chronicles the life and times of Laura and the Ingalls family
as they travel across America in a covered wagon during the late 19th-century. In search of a place to call home, they must
summon their hardiest pioneering spirit to persevere through rough terrain, bad weather, and scarlet fever—not to mention that
nasty Nellie Owens! With this heartwarming show, your students learn how growing up on the prairie inspired one of America’s
best-loved authors to create her series of Little House books.
Links with studies of U.S. Westward Movement, literature, and creative
writing.
VT Stan.: 4.6, 5.2, 5.9, 5.35, 6.8. GE: A9, R7, H&SS 11-13.
Note: Grade levels are recommended based on show content and curriculum connections. Grades outside the
recommendations are welcome to attend, at the teacher’s discretion. Some special preparation may be useful.
The Expeditions program of the New England
Foundation for the Arts, which receives major support
from the National Endowment for the Arts with additional
support from the state arts agencies of New England and the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, for support of Yamato.
Doug Varone and Dancers is funded in part by
the National Endowment for the Arts.
Flynn Center Endowments—The Susan E. Quinn
Memorial Fund, created in memory of Flynn volunteer
Susan Quinn and held at the Vermont Community Foundation;
the Flynn Jazz Endowment, initiated by a challenge grant
from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and matched
by generous community donations; the Flynn General
Endowment, which received challenge grants from the
Ford Foundation New Directions/New Donors program
and the Argosy Foundation that were matched by generous
community donations.
Arts Endowment Fund of the Vermont Community
Foundation; Capezio/Ballet Makers Dance Foundation,
Inc.; Walter Cerf Fund; Freeman Foundation; and Turrell Fund (applications pending).
Additional funding received after April 26, 2007 will be
recognized in the 2007-08 Flynn Program Guide.
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