Teaching drama in the classroom : : a toolbox for teachers / / edited by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy and Sarah Kaplan.

• TeilnehmendeR: Dowdy, Joanne Kilgour.; Kaplan, Sarah.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed. 2011.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (186 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book includes strategies for integrating drama in the classroom through the use of creating characters, giving meaning to activities through answering the questions: who, what, when, where, and why about any person and situation under discussion (5 W's), using storyboards, incorporating music, writing radio scripts, and using literature and movies as prompts for improvised enactments. Students will learn how to create characters and apply those creations to different content-area activities, situations, and subject matter. This useful resource describes more than thirty-five scenarios of teachers and students in early elementary grades through graduate school working together to craft drama events that draw out participants’ creative energies, interpretations of curricular topics, and investigations of social, political, and personal concerns. In all of these lesson plans, students collectively explore topics, concepts, themes, or tensions that surface as they navigate their way through the conditions and experiences that unfold in a scene, skit, improvisation, or in interrelated episodes. Drama techniques include role play, scripting, dialogue, audience participation, improvisation, and the strategic use of interaction, space, movement, and gesture.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy and Sarah Kaplan -- Introduction / Anthony Manna -- Autobiographical Report: Presenting Your Research Using the First-Person Narrative / Yuko Kurahashi -- Picture This: Drama and Poetry for Play / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- Starting from Scratch: Creating Dynamic Characters / Sarah Kaplan -- Carnival Characters in the Classroom / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- Playing for Character Development / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy , Martha Abbott-Shim , Martha Abbott-Shim , Florence Hardney-Hinds and Tracy Woodhall -- Comic Strips Are Comic Plays / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- Virtual Role-Playing / William Kist -- Props, Photos, and Cartoons as Prompts / Sandra Perlman -- Creating a Music Video to Enhance Learning / Sandra Golden -- Songs of Citizenship: The Use of Music in the Classroom / Susan V. Iverson and Jennifer H. James -- Using Music as a Theme in an Aural Project in a College Writing Course / Diana L. Awad Scrocco -- Music and Dramatic Play / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- Using Music and Movement to Develop Character and Illustrate Conflict Resolution / Terry L. Boyarsky -- Developing Literature through Drama / Karen Greene Seipert -- Mime It / Carie Cseak Greene -- Lesson: Creating your Own Canterbury Tale / Jaclyn Consilio -- Drama Activity: Peer Teaching through Performances / Heather Oris -- Bring the Story to Life: Using Drama with Literature / Mary Toepfer -- A Walk in the Park / Teri Poulos -- Character Interviews / Brandy Mcfee -- To Kill a Mockingbird: Drama Lesson / Jessica Cervenak -- Poetry to Drama / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- Movie Scripts / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- Finding Stories Worth Telling / Jacqueline Peck -- Scripting Success: Using Dialogue Writing to Help Students Find Their Voice / Susan V. Iverson and Rhonda S. Filipan -- Let’s Hear it: Drama and Radio / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- The Skin We Are in: Naming, Sharing and Expressing Ourselves / Steven L. Turner -- A Lesson for Merging Populations / Carol L. Robinson , Daniel-Raymond Nadon and Nancy M. Resh -- Don’t Be Afraid to FLY: Using Drama to Inspire Self-Esteem / Mary E. Weems -- Say It Right: Using Drama to Illuminate Language Differences / Jennifer M. Cunninham -- Government Story Board / John Yurkschatt Jr. -- Stepping into Historical Perspectives / Ryan Melin -- Exploring History’s Human Dimension with Process Drama: Ruby Bridges and the Struggle for School Desegregation / Janet Hill and Anthony L. Manna -- Economics (Macroeconomics) / Amanda Janosko -- Addressing Visual Culture through Script Writing / Kelsey Poorman -- Living History: Using Drama in the Social Studies Classroom / Karen Andrus Tollafield -- Bridging the Gap between Writing & Oral History through Research and Drama / Marianne Thomas-Jackson -- Hunter-Hunted: An Engagement Exercise / Yuko Kurahashi -- Guess Who I Am? Drama and Writing / Kelly Bretz -- Dramatic Writing / Marianne Schultz -- Poetry Is Motion / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- About the Authors / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy and Sarah Kaplan.