Ideal for teacher training and college education courses. This unique approach to theatre arts draws upon the richness and diversity of five cultures--West African, Mayan, Native American, Japanese, and British--to involve every student in dramatic performance. Uses the narrative mime approach with multicultural myths and tales in groups of up to 35 students. 
Features: &gt;five full-length, reproducible scripts &gt;warm-up acting exercises &gt;illustrated dance step instructions &gt;the mechanics of producing and directing a play &gt;information on creating your own costumes, sets and musical instruments &gt;methods for both formal and informal performances &gt;directions for writing your own script &gt;playful, dramatic illustrations that set the scene for each culture &gt;follow-up research questions on culture &gt;history and theatrical traditions &gt;and annotated bibliography

Dramatizing Myths and Tales Creating Plays for Large Groups: Grade 3 - High School

Louise Thistle

Humor & Entertainment

Smith and Kraus

Dramatizing Classic Poetry is an ideal way to involve students in classic literature and to integrate dramatization with the study of poems as literature. Written for teachers and recreational leaders with varying degrees of dramatic arts experience, tihs unique book contains: 
More than 50 classic poems scripted to dramatize in the classroom and onstage. 
Authors included are Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Allen Poe, Christina Rossetti, e. e. cummings, Lewis Carroll, Walt Whitman, and others. 
Costume pieces and rhythm instrument suggestions to involve students completely in the poems and to make the poems fully alive. 
Each poem includes Explanations of Poetic Devices and Topics for Critical Thinking, Writing, and Art for teachers to copy. 
Many ways to dramatize poetry in the classroom and onstage including methods involving the whole class, in pairs, small groups, as traveling troupes, and with English Language Learners. 
A Poetry Performance Script giving all students in a class of thirty-five significant roles by including storytellers, actor-reciters and a sound crew. 
Louise Thistle teaches students of all ages how to dramatize literature. She also gives staff development training. She is an actress and the author of six books, including Dramatizing Mother Goose, and two award-winning plays.

Dramatizing Classic Poetry: For Middle and High School Students (Young Actors Series)

Children's Books

Thistle, Louise

Literature & Fiction

Smith & Kraus Pub Inc

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