Famous Women Playwrights

Famous Women Playwrights. Learning Objectives for this video:

• Famous Women Playwrights. Learn about Literature and The Women in Literature - Novelists, Playwrights and Poets. Survey the course of women in literature from the early eighteenth century to the 1960's, when the women's liberation movement transformed America.
• Learn how influential women authors have portrayed their own gender, attempting to define woman's role in society within their own literary works.
• Explore the development of a new and empowering image of woman's role in society as revealed through female literary characters and social commentary by contemporary women writers.
• Establish relationships between the choices available to women in a society, and the changing role of marriage in women-s lives, and the historic context in which different literary works were written.
• Discover the many benefits of using online video for visual learning. Educational video for teaching the K-12 curriculum provides online learning for children and students of all ages and abilities. Using subtitled video - or video with closed captions - enables children to choose between watching, listening to, or reading each presentation whichever best suites their individual learning style. A wonderful option particularly for dyslexia and special needs education.