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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Louise Thistle |
| ISBN: | 1575251558 9781575251554 |
| OCLC Number: | 41380443 |
| Description: | x, 259 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Contents: | Part 1: Getting started: Three principles of good acting -- Four principles of effective stage speech -- Mechanics -- Directing a poetry performance -- Incorporating costume pieces and rhythm instruments -- Developing english language and adapting poems to develop english -- Model lesson: Nonsense verse and Tennyson's the eagle -- Choosing and adapting poems to dramatize -- Part II: Dramatizing poetry: Dramatizing limericks -- Dramatizing Lyrical poetry -- William Blake -- E.E. Cummings -- Emily Dickinson -- Robert Frost -- Thomas Hardy -- Langston Hughes -- Christina Rossetti -- Carl Sandburg -- William Shakespeare -- Alfred Lord Tennyson --Walt Whitman -- William Wordsworth -- Chapter II: Dramatizing ballads -- Dramatizing nonsense verse -- Dramatizing historical narrative poetry -- Part III Performing poetry: Poetry performance -- Glossary of drama and literary terms -- Subject index across the curriculum -- Index of authors, titles, and first lines -- Selected bibliography. |
| Series Title: | Young actor series. |
| Responsibility: | by Louise Thistle. |
Abstract:
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, this 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 Allan 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.
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