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[email protected] www.jpas.org 1 | P a g e TABLE OF CONTENTS TEACHERS’ NOTES……………………………………………………….3 LOUISIANA CONTENT STANDARDS………………………………….5 BACKGROUND…………………………………………………………….6 The New Georgia Encyclopedia Driving Miss Daisy ……………………………………………………..7 Gefilte Fish in the Land of the Kingfish: Jewish Life in Louisiana………………………………….10 Oy! Such a home, Multicultural Identity…………………… ……………………………………………….17 The Jews of New Orleans………………………………………………………………………………….………..22 The Krews and the Jews………………………………………………………………………………….………….25 THE GOLDRING WOLDENBERG INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE ……………………….31 Jewish Virtual Life………………………………………………………………………………….………….……….38 The Code Noir………………………………………………………………………………….. ……………………….41 19th-century American Women, Voodoo & Tignon Laws in Louisiana………………..54 Arts Integration Background………………………………………………………………………………………62 DRIVING MISS DAISY Monologues……………………………………………………………………………..65 LESSONS…………………………………………………………………………67 Exploring Monologues, Karel Sloane-Boekbinder…………...………68 Power, Privilege and Responsibility…………………………………..72 Developing Monologues, Karel Sloane-Boekbinder…………………91 RESOURCE LIST…………………………………………………………………….60 2 | P a g e TEACHERS’ NOTES The Jefferson Performing Arts Society is delighted to present DRIVING MISS DAISY, by Alfred Uhry; STARRING JANET SHEA, DONAL LEWIS and CHRIS SHAW. Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off- Broadway Play and later, an Academy Award-winning film, DRIVING MISS DAISY is a warm-hearted, humorous and affecting study of the unlikely relationship between an aging, crotchety white Southern lady: and a proud, soft-spoken black man. The place is the Deep South, the time 1948 - just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Werthan, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffeur.