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Teaching Drama in the Classroom

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Joanne Kilgour Dowdy

    1. Kent State University, Ohio, USA

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  2. Sarah Kaplan

    1. Kent State University, Ohio, USA

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Table of contents (42 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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    1. Introduction

      • Anthony Manna
      Pages 1-8

  3. Character Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 16-16
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    2. Autobiographical Report: Presenting Your Research Using the First-Person Narrative

      • Yuko Kurahashi
      Pages 11-12

    3. Picture this: Drama and Poetry for Play

      • Joanne Kilgour Dowdy
      Pages 13-14

    4. Starting from Scratch: Creating Dynamic Characters

      • Sarah Kaplan
      Pages 15-16

    5. Carnival Characters in the Classroom

      • Joanne Kilgour Dowdy
      Pages 17-20

    6. Playing for Character Development

      • Joanne Kilgour Dowdy, Martha Abbott-shim, Lynn Briggs, Florence Hardney-hinds, Tracy Woodhall
      Pages 21-32

    7. Comic Strips are Comic Plays

      • Joanne Kilgour Dowdy
      Pages 33-35

    8. Virtual Role-Playing

      • William Kist
      Pages 37-40

    9. Props, Photos, and Cartoons as Prompts

      • Sandy Perlman
      Pages 41-42

  4. Music

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 48-48
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    2. Creating a Music Video to Enhance Learning

      • Sandra Golden
      Pages 45-47

    3. Songs of Citizenship: the Use of Music in the Classroom

      • Susan V. Iverson, Jennifer H. James
      Pages 49-54

    4. Using Music as a Theme in an Aural Project in a College Writing Course

      • Diana L. Awad Scrocco
      Pages 55-57

    5. Music and Dramatic Play

      • Joanne Kilgour Dowdy
      Pages 59-62

    6. Using Music and Movement to Develop Character and Illustrate Conflict Resolution

      • Terry L. Boyarsky
      Pages 63-65

  5. Adapting Literature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 68-68
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    2. Developing Literature Through Drama

      • Karen Greene Seipert
      Pages 69-70

    3. Mime IT

      • Carie Cseak Greene
      Pages 71-73
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Kent State University, Ohio, USA

    Joanne Kilgour Dowdy, Sarah Kaplan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Teaching Drama in the Classroom

  • Editors: Joanne Kilgour Dowdy, Sarah Kaplan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-537-6

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6091-537-6Published: 02 November 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 201

  • Topics: Creativity and Arts Education

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