Multicultural Literature Lesson Activity: Rent

1. Lesson Objectives: promote critical thinking and provide base knowledge of history,
historical contexts and background of The musical Rent.

2. All Lesson Materials: Rent power point, rent lyric sheets,

3. Instruction- learning Process: Create a detailed outline of the multicultural activity following
the teaching design below:

● Do First/ Mini Lesson: introduction and mini lesson are both included in the powerpoint video
Here

● Guided Practice:
I will then read the lyrics to la Vie Bohem and explain the meaning as I understand it, this shows
them how to complete the following assignment.

● Independent Practice: next the class will be broken into groups and after 15 minutes of reading
and preparing as a group each group will read and explain a lyric page just like I did.

● Exit Slip: I am going to return to the front of class and ask the class a few questions based off of
what was mentioned in their explanation or thing is felt should have been mentioned

4. All Resources: List all resources used in the multicultural lesson plan in APA format.

Dave Quinn By Dave Quinn January 27, 2019 06:30 P. M. (n.d.). The true story of rent: How
the cast banded together after creator Jonathan Larson's death. PEOPLE.com. Retrieved March
12, 2022, from https://people.com/theater/rent-live-musical-history-jonathan-larson-death/

Dickson, E. J. (2021, March 1). 'rent' releases rare Jonathan Larson Demos in honor of 25th
anniversary. Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 12, 2022, from
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rent-musical-jonathan-larson-demos-songs-11
33937/

Grode, E. (2021, February 25). The birth of 'rent,' its creator's death and the 25 years since. The
New York Times. Retrieved March 12, 2022, from
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/theater/rent-anniversary.html

Istel, J., & Larson, J. (2016, January 29). Jonathan Larson talks about his writing process
and making 'rent'. AMERICAN THEATRE. Retrieved March 12, 2022, from
https://www.americantheatre.org/1996/07/01/jonathan-larson-talks-about-his-writing-process-an
d-rent/
Larson, J. (n.d.). Read all the lyrics to the 'rent' soundtrack. Genius. Retrieved March 12, 2022,
from https://genius.com/a/read-all-the-lyrics-to-the-rent-soundtrack

Wikimedia Foundation. (2022, March 11). Rent (musical). Wikipedia. Retrieved March 12, 2022,
from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_(musical)

5. Reflection:

My lesson taught critical thinking, history, reading comprehension.

My lesson also taught about LGBT history, and Culture as well as allowed student the
opportunity to come to their own understanding about this diverse subculture through their
examination of the lyrics.

I believe the strength and weakness of the lesson plan is it leaves a lot of the lesson up to the
comprehension of the students.