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Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
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Chris Huber - On Leave, Missouri
Julie Moore - Monroe High School, Wisconsin
Website Reviewer and Compiler
Charles R. Sanders - San Pedro High School, California
Site Ratings
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American Scenes
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/scenes.html
A good source of ideas for writing about Lorraine Hansberry's
A Raisin in the Sun, this site contains eleven essays on various subjects within the play, such as "pride in the family, changes in Walter, money and manhood, generation gaps, and assimilation." Students could
use the issues raised in these commentaries to stimulate discussion, or to refute or support the ideas, in a paper of their own.
Overall Rating: 3Hansberry, Lorraine and
A Raisin in the Sun
http://educeth.ethz.ch/english/readinglist/hansberry,lorraine.html
A valuable resource for the study of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, this site offers "many helpful documents." Teachers will find "a teacher's guide, study questions, and various papers on, and
analyses of, the play." Students who are trying to understand "the mindsets of the characters" will find the study guide to be quite helpful, and they will also have an opportunity to discuss the play online with
other students from around the country.
Overall Rating: 3A Raisin in the Sun Teacher's Guide
http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart/raisintg.html
Although this teacher's guide for Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
is "visually unappealing," it does offer a good, clear summary of the play. In addition, several "questions to guide reading for comprehension, and dozens more to stimulate thinking, discussion and writing," are included. Recommendations for further reading and journal writing round out this useful site.
Overall Rating: 3Voice From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color (Lorraine Hansberry)
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/
From the pages of the "Voices From the Gaps" website, comes this "substantive short biography of (Lorraine) Hansberry, with a photo of the author, ...and similar information on scores of women writers of
color." A good bibliography of over a dozen works by and about the author is included. Browse the links and you'll find a "teacher's guide, an extensive book list...intended for upper secondary readers," and
a review of Hansberry's To Be Young, Gifted, and Black.
Overall Rating: 3
Lloyd Richards Interview
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/ric0int-2
This site compensates for its plain look with "many fascinating details" surrounding the genesis and production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
. Learn how Lloyd Richards, the director, "reworked the play with the author while financial backing was sought, how they mounted the play and took it on the road," and of the role played by actor Sidney Poitier
in the play's creation.
Overall Rating: 2
Raisin in the Sun
http://www.csustan.edu/english/Reuben/pal/Chap8/hansberry.html
"If all you need is one good idea for a lesson" on A Raisin in the Sun, here it is. Of primary interest on this site is "an
outline for a lesson plan analyzing the Younger family... in terms of Maslow's hierarchy of needs." May "not be very exciting for students, but for teachers, the hierarchy of needs might (prove to) be rather
interesting."
Overall Rating: 2 |
