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Author Polsky, Milton E.

Title Drama activities for K-6 students : creating classroom spirit / Milton E. Polsky, Dorothy Napp Schindel, Carmine Tabone.

Imprint Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  372.1399 P767d 2006    ---  Available
Description xvi, 170 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Getting started -- Guiding students to work in groups -- Ten things for young people to practice -- How to transform stories into plays with students (Grades K-2) -- How to transform stories into plays with students (Grades 3-6) -- Rubric for revising : ACTED IT -- Storytelling suggestions -- Become animals, birds, and sea creatures -- More helpful tips : becoming animals, birds, and sea creatures -- Using pantomime -- Creating tableau -- Making classroom scenery, costumes, and simple props -- Keep in mind -- Caring and sharing -- Story : "Animals, birds, and sea creatures help Skywoman create the Earth" - Native American myth (Grades K-3) -- More helpful tips : sounds in harmony -- Story : "The friendly forest" (Grades K-2) -- More helpful tips : How to use transformations -- "Why do the young hawks cry?" - Native American poem (All grades) -- Poem : "Me, myself, and I" (Grades K-6) -- Poem : "Helpful/Unhelpful Advice" by Howard Berland (Grades 3-6) -- Mandala picture project (Grades 3-6) -- Story : "The three questions" - Russian folktale (Grades 3-6) -- Helpful resources -- Review and move on.
Conflict and consequences -- More helpful tips : become drama detectives - a nursery rhyme: "Little Miss Muffett" -- Second chances -- Story : "When frog and mouse were friends" - United States of America (Grades 3-6) -- Story : "The quail's story" - Asian folktale (Grades 3-6) -- Story : "The curse of the water monster creature" - Australian folktale (Grades 3-6) -- More helpful tips : Writing a short play (Grades 3-6) -- Aesop's fable : "The goose with the golden eggs" - Ancient Greece (Grades 3-6) -- More helpful tips : Make simple puppets (All grades) -- More helpful tips : Put on an in-class radio show (Grades 3-6) -- Story : "The emperor's new suit of armor" (Grades 3-6) -- More helpful tips : Make up a group story right on the spot -- Helpful resources -- ch. 4. Bullying and teasing -- Story : "The three billy goats gruff" - English folktale (Grades K-2) -- Story : "Beetle and rat" - Amazonian folktale (Grades 3-6) -- Story : "Rosie's story" - United States of America (Grades K-3) -- Story : "Swimmy" (Grades 3-6) -- More helpful tips : Creating scenes and assigning roles -- More examples of possible scenes in sequence for Swimmy -- More helpful tips : Designing a scenario -- Helpful resources.
ch. 5. Envisioning peace -- Story : "The tree of peace" - Native American story (Grades 3-6) -- How to make a shadow play -- Shadow poem : "Sadako and the thousand cranes" (Grades 3-6) -- Story : "Bring back a tiger's whisker" - Korean folktale (Grades 3-6) -- Story : "The duck in the gun" - New Zealand (Grades 3-6) -- Paintings and pictures as stimuli for creative drama : The peaceable kingdom by Edward Hicks (Grades 3-6) -- "We still have a dream" : the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- We still have a dream : from page to stage (Grades 3-6) -- Dramatizing poetry (Grades 3-6) -- Helpful resources -- About the authors.
Subject Drama in education.
Theater -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
Added Author Schindel, Dorothy Napp, 1942-
Tabone, Carmine, 1946-
ISBN 1578864445 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1578864453 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781578864447
9781578864454
Standard No. YDXCP 2387782
YDXCP 2387784
NZ1 10700044
AU@ 000040098946

 
    
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