VIDEO: Students Learn Chicano History By Writing Plays
By Gloria Angelina Castillo, EGP Staff Writer
Students at Monterey High School, a continuation school in East Los Angeles, wrote the plays during a semester-long playwriting class. Seven students handpicked by their principal, wrote “2011 Meets 1968,” a series of one-act plays based on interviews with participants in the 1968 Walk Outs. For many of them, the experience was eye-opening if not cathartic.
“About… Luis Torres”
“About… Ofelia Esparza”
“About… Paula Crisostomo”
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March 8, 2011 Copyright © 2012 Eastern Group Publications, Inc.
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