Everything you need to understand or teach The King and I by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
In this romantic musical, the boy-meets-girl plot is woven into the historical context of British Imperialism in Asia. Thus it is also the story of a clash between cultures and the dynamics between Great Britain and "oriental" peoples. The King of Siam invites an English governess to come to his country and teach the children of his many wives about the modern world. Yet he himself resists changing his traditional role as benevolent...
The King and I Lesson Plans contain 121 pages of teaching material, including:
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