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  2. The Thanksgiving Play - Wikipedia

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    The Thanksgiving Play is a satirical comedy written by Larissa FastHorse. The play centers around a group of four well-meaning but culturally insensitive white theater artists who attempt to create a politically correct elementary school play about the first Thanksgiving while struggling with their own biases and the lack of Native ...

  3. Land of the Silver Birch - Wikipedia

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    This song is performed by children in American elementary school plays about the First Thanksgiving to typify Native American lifestyle only using the first verses. [citation needed] In the 2019 film Brotherhood, directed by Richard Bell is based on a true story of a 1926 canoeing accident in an Ontario, Canada lake at a boys' summer camp.

  4. Lorraine Hansberry - Wikipedia

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    Robert B. Nemiroff. . . (m. 1953; div. 1962) . Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and writer. [1] She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago ...

  5. The Pet Goat - Wikipedia

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    The Pet Goat. " The Pet Goat " (often erroneously called " My Pet Goat ") is a grade-school-level reading exercise composed by American educationalist Siegfried "Zig" Engelmann and Elaine C. Bruner. It achieved notoriety for being read by US President George W. Bush with a class of second-graders on the morning of September 11, 2001.

  6. Lemoore Union Elementary School District - Wikipedia

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    Lemoore Elementary is headed by Principal Amy Garcia and Learning Coordinator. Lemoore Elementary is the oldest school in the district and has three distinct permanent buildings and play areas. They are traditionally called the Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson Buildings. Lemoore Elementary is located in south-central Lemoore, on a 17-acre ...

  7. Miss Trunchbull - Wikipedia

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    Ms Agatha Trunchbull, also known as Ms Trunchbull, or simply The Trunchbull, is the fictional headmistress of Crunchem Hall Primary School (or Elementary School), and the main antagonist in Roald Dahl's 1988 novel Matilda and its adaptations: the 1996 film Matilda (played by Pam Ferris), the 2011 musical, and the 2022 musical film adaptation (played by Emma Thompson).

  8. Steve Zahn - Wikipedia

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    Steven James Zahn (/ zɑːn / ZAHN; [1] born November 13, 1967) [2] is an American actor. The accolades he has received include an Independent Spirit Award, alongside nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In film, Zahn is best known for his lead roles in That Thing You Do! (1996), Happy, Texas (1999), Joy ...

  9. Kadia Molodowsky - Wikipedia

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    Kadia Molodowsky (Yiddish: קאַדיע מאָלאָדאָװסקי; also: Kadya Molodowsky; May 10, 1894, in Bereza Kartuska, now Byaroza, Belarus – March 23, 1975, in Philadelphia) was a Polish-American poet and writer in the Yiddish language, and a teacher of Yiddish and Hebrew. She published six collections of poetry during her lifetime ...