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This is a photocopiable pack of 24 drama lesson plans, designed for the non-specialist teacher of drama. The lessons are topic-based and many of the themes are already familiar to pupils. The contents include "Little Red Riding Hood", the Egyptians and the "Diary of Anne Frank". The plans are written for Key Stages 1-3 of the National Curriculum in England and Wales, and for Levels A-E in Scotland. Target ability level is signalled at the beginning of each plan, together with a list of outcomes for assessment purposes. The required resources and classroom organization are listed, and the lesson plans are cross-curricular. ... Read more

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Take a Bow! Lesson Plans for Pre-School Drama is a teacher’s guide o creating successful drama lessons for the pre-school age group.The book outlines and explains four major types of drama lessons designed specifically for pre-school children.In addition, it leads both the new and seasoned pre-school teacher through follow-up activities that will teach students valuable lessons, as well as keeping them entertained.

Thousands of pre-schools across the country advertise on their web sites and in their catalogues that they offer a Drama class as a part of their curriculum. Yet, you will find very few college education departments teaching how to create such a drama class for this age group – and even fewer books on the subject.Take a Bow! Speaks directly to both today’s creatively minded pre-school teachers who are looking to bring a new aspect of learning into their classroom, as well as the drama teacher in search of knowledge from an experienced educator on dealing with this age group. ... Read more

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In this book Mark Wheeller reflects on his ongoing career as a secondary school drama teacher after 30 years in the profession. The book is interspersed with some fascinating biographical detail which will make this an interesting read and a useful resource for both those already familiar with Mark Wheeller's output, and those discovering his work for the first time. Drama Schemes also features a section in which Mark discusses the crucial role of the much-maligned school production. Throught this chapter he shows how he developed many of his plays, which have become staple parts of the curriculum, both in the UK and overseas.Two of the schemes also focus on his use of drama across the curriculum, including his growing admiration for the Mantel of the Expert system of learning. ... Read more

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Helping me through my PGCE!
Mark Wheeller has always been an inspiration to me and I am glad to have recently bought this book on his Schemes of Work. I have just started teaching in my first placement on a very hard PGCE Drama course and this book has been invaluable to me.
It's a great resource for all Drama teachers too I should imagine. Very easy to read and understand. ... Read more

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A DRAMA ON THE SEASHORE

Nearly all young men have a compass with which they delight in measuring the future. When their will is equal to the breadth of the angle at which they open it the world is theirs. But this phenomenon of the inner life takes place only at a certain age. That age, which for all men lies between twenty-two and twenty-eight, is the period of great thoughts, of fresh conceptions, because it is the age of immense desires. After that age, short as the seed-time, comes that of execution. There are, as it were, two youths,--the youth of belief, the youth of action; these are often commingled in men whom Nature has favored and who, like Caesar, like Newton, like Bonaparte, are the greatest among great men.

I was measuring how long a time it might take a thought to develop. Compass in hand, standing on a rock some hundred fathoms above the ocean, the waves of which were breaking on the reef below, I surveyed my future, filling it with books as an engineer or builder traces on vacant ground a palace or a fort.
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The public may possibly wonder why it is that they have never heard in the papers of the fate of the passengers of the __Korosko__. In these days of universal press agencies, responsive to the slightest stimulus, it may well seem incredible that an international incident of such importance should remain so long unchronicled. Suffice it that there were very valid reasons, both of a personal and political nature, for holding it back. ... Read more

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SCENE FIRST. (A room in the house of the Duc de Montsorel.) The Duchesse de Montsorel and Mademoiselle de Vaudrey.

The Duchess Ah! So you have been waiting for me! How very good of you!

Mademoiselle de Vaudrey What is the matter, Louise? This is the first time in the twelve years of our mutual mourning, that I have seen you cheerful. Knowing you as I do, it makes me alarmed.

The Duchess I cannot help showing my unhappiness, and you, who have shared all my sorrows, alone can understand my rapture at the faintest gleam of hope.

Mademoiselle de Vaudrey Have you come upon any traces of your lost son?

The Duchess He is found!

Mademoiselle de Vaudrey Impossible! When you find out your error it will add to your anguish.

The Duchess A child who is dead has but a tomb in the heart of his mother; but the child who has been stolen, is still living in that heart, dear aunt.
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"The public may possibly wonder why it is that they have never heard in the papers of the fate of the passengers of the __Korosko__. In these days of universal press agencies, responsive to the slightest stimulus, it may well seem incredible that an international incident of such importance should remain so long unchronicled. Suffice it that there were very valid reasons, both of a personal and political nature, for holding it back. " ... Read more

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An incredible teaching with creative drama book.This book, not only gives you valuable information about using creative drama as a teaching tool but also gives you over 100 creative drama's ready to use in over 16 subjects.Teaching with creative drama is an incredible way to make a difference in childrens lives.Teaching with creative drama is not just for public school teachers either.This book is an excellent reference guide for private school teachers, high school drama teachers, college education professors, day care facilitators, home school networks, Sunday school teachers AND MORE. ... Read more

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"The last decade of the sixteenth century was marked by an outburst of sonneteering. To devotees of the sonnet, who find in that poetic form the moat perfect vehicle that has ever been devised for the expression of a single importunate emotion, it will not seem strange that at the threshold of a literary period whose characteristic note is the most intense personality, the instinct of poets should have directed them to the form most perfectly fitted for the expression of this inner motive. " ... Read more

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Numerous and varied as have been the analyses of Ibsen's works published, in all languages, since the completion of his writings, there exists no biographical study which brings together, on a general plan, what has been recorded of his adventures as an author.
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Numerous and varied as have been the analyses of Ibsen's works published, in all languages, since the completion of his writings, there exists no biographical study which brings together, on a general plan, what has been recorded of his adventures as an author. ... Read more

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Numerous and varied as have been the analyses of Ibsen's works published, in all languages, since the completion of his writings, there exists no biographical study which brings together, on a general plan, what has been recorded of his adventures as an author. ... Read more

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Text for undergrad course
I have used this text in my undergrad course for the last couple of years.It is written in real language with lots of practical suggestions for elementary and middle school teachers.I wish I had had textbooks like this when I was in college!

Enough to stimulate many good lesson plans
I like this book and will use it with a class on arts methods in education.It divides the arts in four main domains:visual arts, theatre/drama, music, and dance, and each chapter is chock full of ways to use these domains in the K-12 classroom.At the end, they feature three lengthy integrated units that center around a single work or theme, kind of like Leonard Bernstein's arts-based curriculum.One of them is a unit on jazz study, which I thought was a great idea.A few of the explanations are tedious, some statements needed a few citations to hold up, and the anticipation guides could be answered correctly by anyone with a brain, but these are small quibbles.Mainly, it's a good book to get teachers thinking about the wide range of arts-based activities they can promote even without special training.

Good if you know nothing about teaching with the arts
This book is set up as a text book, with anticipatory guides, questions and activities for the reader to do. I was expecting a book with too many ideas, but instead this book is for those that aren't familiar with the arts or how to incorporate them into the classroom. There are better books out there, and this is more of a stroking of the authors' worth than anything else. I was very disappointed with this book.
If you have no clues about what art is or how to use it in your lessons, than this book is for you, but if you have any background using art at all, ignore this book. ... Read more