13 short plays about significant American heroes. A text for upper elementary through adult classes. Overheard, one teacher to another at TESOL Vancouver: Celebrating American Heroes. I like it. It's like jazz chants, but history. Like jazz chants, but better. - 13 brief plays about significant historical figures, American heroes. They are written to be read aloud dramatically. In each play there are a few main characters and a chorus. The heroes are Betsy Ross and George Washington; Dolley Madison; Sacagawea; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Abraham Lincoln; Thomas Alva Edison; John Muir; Jackie Robinson; Jonas Salk; Robert Frost; Cesar Chavez; Astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins; and Jaime Escalante. There is minimal preparation required. The content is meaningful. Students learn about American history and culture while they learn the language. The stories are upbeat and inspiring. The subjects of the plays are real heroes. All have achieved something and contributed to making this a better nation. All have had something to overcome. The plays are excellent ways to introduce or reinforce specific social studies or history topics. They fit well in citizenship classes and are wonderful for holiday or multicultural celebrations. They are also an excellent complement to conversation, pronunciation, and speech classes because the students get the opportunity to practice the natural rhythm, stress, and intonation of the English language. They are well suited for multilevel classes. The more proficient students enjoy the challenge of the speaking roles; the less confident get speaking practice as part of the chorus. Everybody shines. The plays are a low-anxiety activity. There is nothing to memorize. The students get support by holding the script in their hands, and they can also be seated if they choose.

Celebrating American Heroes - student text

Reference

Siebert, Anne

Roach, Marilynne, K

English as a Second Language

Pro Lingua Learning

Celebrating American Heroes 13 short plays about significant American heroes by: Anne Siebert, with illustrations by Marilynne K. Roach Levels: A text for upper elementary through adult classes Overheard, one teacher to another at TESOL Vancouver: "Celebrating - Celebrating American Heroes. I like it. It's like jazz chants, but history. Like jazz chants, but better." 
13 brief plays about significant historical figures, American heroes. They are written to be read aloud dramatically. In each play there are a few main characters and a chorus. The heroes are Betsy Ross and George Washington; Dolley Madison; Sacagawea; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Abraham Lincoln; Thomas Alva Edison; John Muir; Jackie Robinson; Jonas Salk; Robert Frost; Cesar Chavez; Astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins; and Jaime Escalante. 
Why These Plays Work There is minimal preparation required. The content is meaningful. Students learn about American history and culture while they learn the language. The stories are upbeat and inspiring. The subjects of the plays are real heroes. All have achieved something and contributed to making this a better nation. All have had something to overcome. The plays are excellent ways to introduce or reinforce specific social studies or history topics. They fit well in citizenship classes and are wonderful for holiday or multicultural celebrations. They are also an excellent complement to conversation, pronunciation, and speech classes because the students get the opportunity to practice the natural rhythm, stress, and intonation of the English language. They are well suited for multilevel classes. The more proficient students enjoy the challenge of the speaking roles; the less confident get speaking practice as part of the chorus. Everybody shines. The plays are a low-anxiety activity. There is nothing to memorize. The students get support by holding the script in their hands, and they can also be seated if they choose. The follow-up activities and exercises in the Teacher's Guide are an excellent supplement to performing the play. The students can work at their own pace to complete them. 
Overheard, one teacher to another at TESOL Vancouver: "Celebrating - Celebrating American Heroes. I like it. It's like jazz chants, but history. Like jazz chants, but better." 
13 brief plays about significant historical figures, American heroes. They are written to be read aloud dramatically. In each play there are a few main characters and a chorus. The heroes are Betsy Ross and George Washington; Dolley Madison; Sacagawea; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Abraham Lincoln; Thomas Alva Edison; John Muir; Jackie Robinson; Jonas Salk; Robert Frost; Cesar Chavez; Astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins; and Jaime Escalante. 
Why These Plays Work There is minimal preparation required. The content is meaningful. Students learn about American history and culture while they learn the language. The stories are upbeat and inspiring. The subjects of the plays are real heroes. All have achieved something and contributed to making this a better nation. All have had something to overcome. The plays are excellent ways to introduce or reinforce specific social studies or history topics. They fit well in citizenship classes and are wonderful for holiday or multicultural celebrations. They are also an excellent complement to conversation, pronunciation, and speech classes because the students get the opportunity to practice the natural rhythm, stress, and intonation of the English language. They are well suited for multilevel classes. The more proficient students enjoy the challenge of the speaking roles; the less confident get speaking practice as part of the chorus. Everybody shines. The plays are a low-anxiety activity. There is nothing to memorize. The students get support by holding the script in their hands, and they can also be seated if they choose. The follow-up activities and exercises in the Teacher's Guide are an excellent supplement to performing the play. The students can work at their own pace to complete them.

Celebrating American Heroes - teachers guide

Pro Lingua Associates

Talking with Americans On and Off Campus features 24 idiom-rich dialogs between International students and their American friends. Discussions are of personal and cultural interest. In addition to idiomatic vocabulary development, the focus of the dialogs is on stress, rhythm, intonation and phrasing to help students sound more natural. A downloadable audio program is available for this book. Visit ProLinguaLearning.com for details.

Talking with Americans On and Off Campus: Conversations for Listening and Speaking

This book analyses the interplay of urban agriculture and food sovereignty through the innovative lens of the "critical urban food perspective". It focuses on the mobilisation of urban food producers as a powerful response to highly exclusionary dynamics in the agri-food system including insufficient food access and disastrous land dispossessions.This volume particularly aims to fill the gap in the current literature by engaging with food sovereignty discourses and movements in urban areas. Related activism of urban food producers in the Global South remains underrepresented in practice and in literature. Therefore, this book engages with the lived realities of an urban agriculture initiative in George, South Africa. Building on theoretical notions of the "right to the city" and "everyday forms of resistance", the book illuminates how deprived food producers expose inequalities and propose alternatives. The findings of in-depth empirical research reveal that dwellers perceive farming as a mean to overcome historical segregation, high food prices, and unhealthy nutrition. Hence, they breathe life into food sovereignty in practice and suggest further alliances beyond the city.The book will be of interest to scholars and students of alternative food politics, agrarian transformation, and food movements as well as rural-urban intersections.

Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture (Critical Food Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

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Celebrating American Heroes - student text

Celebrating American Heroes - teachers guide

Talking with Americans On and Off Campus: Conversations for Listening and Speaking

Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture (Critical Food Studies)