We have been working for many weeks to prepare this resource guide for you and we hope that you find it useful when helping your students learn from our production of Making Gay History: Before Stonewall, either before or after seeing the show.

The main concept behind this guide is to provide a series of pre- and post-show activities. We hope that you will review these activities and consider using the pre-show activities in your classroom before you attend the performance. It is not necessary to complete these activities in order to understand the work, but the more information the students have before they see the show, the richer their experience will be at the performance.

Each individual activity concludes with a series of reflective discussion questions which will help the students to process their experiences as well as allow them to demonstrate achievement towards the New York State Learning Standards for the Arts.

Thank you for coming to our production and we hope that you will consider coming again in the future.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Jones, PhD

Program Administrator