Greek Chorus: Raisin in the Sun

For the final part of the Drama course, we read A Raisin in the Sun. We studied the different roles women have had over the years.  For the last Action Project, we wrote a Greek Chorus. A Greek chorus has two parts, The commentary and the prologue. We were challenged to pick a heroic character from A Raisin in the Sun and write about their high points and their downfall from being a hero. I picked Mama because it was easy to find different times where she would have a high and low point. they were We spent time working on the two parts and got to look at a lot of examples of the two parts for reference. That was incredibly helpful because it gave me an idea of how the chorus should look. One of the things I struggled with on this project was figuring out the wording for all of the parts of the dialogue when the chorus would speak. It was difficult to make sure the dialogue from the book flowed with the dialogue from the chorus. The main idea from my chorus was that you should always honor the wishes of those who you love wishes.  One of the things I thought was easy was picking a scene and hero character. It was simple to chose a hero because there are so many in the play. I really enjoyed this action project.