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Show # 5001-

Suggested Performance Level: Upper Elem through Middle, Grades 4-7
Character Parts: 27 | Original Songs: 5 | Estimated Running Time: 45 Minutes


The U.S. frontier. Winter. 1892. An iron and steam beast is sighted rumbling through the forest on steel tracks.

Here comes The Great Northern Railroad, built to open up a fast transcontinental route for people and industry. What can this mean for the British farmers and Swedish lumberjacks of the region? How would the railroad affect their lives, not to mention the lives of all the French voyageurs and Mexican miners also on the U.S. Northwest Passage?

Before long, people from all cultures are working for the railroad, laying track, and moving westward through desert and mountains, all the way to the Pacific Ocean...

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Kit contents “The Great Northern Railroad” is an interdisciplinary tool for integrating the arts with social studies and reading comprehension standards at the intermediate elementary to middle school levels. Via an integrated classroom and stage event, students benefit from a broader learning experience, while teachers benefit from a class play that doubles as a standards-based teaching platform.
   
   
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The Great Northern Railroad

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pdf document Music Samples | MP3
• "Who Needs a Railroad?"
• "Life on the River"
• "James J. Hill"

pdf document Free Set Downloads| PDF
• Title Backdrop
• Title Backdrop b&w
• Scene Backdrop
• Scene Backdrop b&w

pdf document Other Downloads | PDF
• Letter to Parents
• Program Template


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