Intermediate Senior Music, Drama & Dance

Sect. 1. Storytelling -- Sect. 2. Improvisation -- Sect. 3. Characters and Lives -- Sect. 4. Exploring the World -- Sect. 5. Stage Craft -- Sect. 6. Bringing Language and Literature Alive -- Sect. 7. Media -- Sect. 8. Ideas for Mini-Plays.

101 highly effective drama games and activities suitable for children or adults. Chapters include improvisation, mime, ice-breakers, group dynamics, rehearsal, story-telling, voice and warm-ups. This unique book has been developed by a professional theatre director through workshops and training with actors, teachers and children around the world. Foreword by David Wood, OBE. 'I have to thank you for providing the most creative resources I have ever seen to educate and entertain young children.'- Matt Brown, Milwaukee, USA'We wanted to congratulate you on a fantastic resource of ideas.'- Fiona Hahn, King's Camps, Sheffield, UK'I am always on the look out for resources that will help me in the studio and this book is perfect! The language used is straightforward and the instructions are easy to follow.'- Bernadette Collins, UK

'...bubbles over with imaginative ideas... for primary, secondary and other drama teachers.' - Teaching Drama Magazine, Spring 2013. This sequel to the best-selling 101 Drama Games and Activities contains inspirational and engaging games and exercises suitable for children, young people and adults. The activities can be used in teaching drama lessons and workshops as well as during rehearsal and devising periods. The book includes lively and fun warm-up games, as well as activities to develop concentration, focus and team building. The drama strategies can be used as creative tools to explore themes and characters. There are dozens of ideas for developing improvisation (which can be extended over several sessions). There are many new activities for exploring storytelling skills as well as mime and movement.

Gives teachers background, timeline and teaching ideas for using more and different drama in language arts classrooms or similar educational settings.

1. Curriculum Drama: An Engaging Approach to Social Studies -- 2. Constructing Curriculum Drama: Exploring Its Structure -- 3. Becoming a Senator: Setting the Stage -- 4. Political Parties: Building Belief -- 5. Holding an Election: Engaging in Multiple Entry Points -- 6. Current Events: Doing Legislative Work -- 7. Constructing a Hearing: Appraising Witness Testimony -- 8. Constructing a Debate: Taking Legislative Action -- 9. Constructing Curriculum Drama in Other Contexts

Encouraging both teacher and student imagination and expression, the eighth edition of this classic text helps future teachers integrate drama into the classroom and introduces students to a variety of genres and strategies, including mime, play structure, improvisation, and using drama in the special education curriculum. Unlike other texts, McCaslin focuses on drama as an art form as well as a teaching tool.

Drama Schemes, Themes & Dreams offers a comprehensive outline of improvistion and interpretation strategies that theachers can incoroporate in classroom instruction. Organized around universal themes that invite students to make connections to texts and to each other, the book encourages students to consider their own identities and their place in the world. This useful book features a host of sources for dramatic activity, including scripts, monologues, poetry, novel excerpts, and technology. The activities enrich the meaning-making, creative process, and critical skills that students need to succeed in school and life.,

A practical book for Junior/Intermediate grade teachers who are new or inexperienced in arts education. Introduces all the elements of dance, drama, music and visual arts and shows educators how to use the arts to support literacy and other subjects.

Rainer and Lewis present a series of new, exciting and challenging practical units for teaching drama in the modern classroom. The tried-and-tested units of work in this book are placed in the context of current ideas about classroom practice. The authors present a new model of how teachers can draw together the various methodologies of process drama and traditional theatre teaching. The flexible content makes the book suitable for specialist and non-specialist drama teachers. Newly trained teachers, student teachers and those new to drama will feel supported by the full, detailed layout. Experienced teachers will find the main benefit of the book as a springboard into their own drama teaching around the themes and topics given, and as a means of clarifying theoretical concepts.

′This book will be a welcome, practical addition to the repertoires of teachers of children aged 7-11 who are looking for inspiration and relevance in their teaching of writing skills′ - Speaking English `For the drama novice, this is the book to buy. It reveals drama′s power, maps the route to success, and empowers the reader to follow′ - Literacy Time `All activities are inspiring and imaginative, and the written activities that follow them are varied and interesting...this book will prove useful, especially in the upper primary and middle school′ - English Drama Media Using ideas and activities already tried and tested in the classroom, this book shows practitioners how imaginative drama lessons and activities can be used to help encourage and improve children′s writing, speaking and listening skills. Perfect for the person who might not be used to leading drama-based activities, this book takes a step-by step approach that will help even the most daunted teacher tackle drama with confidence. Also included are: - ideas for suitable writing and drama activities - advice on lesson planning - list of useful resources - examples of children′s work and teachers′ comments Class teachers, teaching assistants, literacy consultants and drama and English co-ordinators looking for practical, fun drama activities to support literacy will find all the help they need in this book.

For years, K-12 teachers have been relying on the invaluable tools and blueprints in Building Dances and Building More Dances to help their students put movements together. Now, with Building Dances, Second Edition, the original text has been significantly expanded and updated to give you even more tools to guide your students as they experiment with the creative process--even if you've never taught or choreographed dance. Like the earlier books, this guide puts you in the role of facilitator rather than demonstrator. Using the dance construction models provided, you'll explain the material, teach the necessary skills, direct the action, and assess the outcomes . . . letting your students focus on the creative work.

Research clearly links increased participation in the arts to improved academic achievement--and in response, more middle schools are adding dance to their curriculum. But most middle school educators are not trained in dance. Realizing this dilemma, author Judi Fey crafted the solution: Dance Units for Middle School. Ideal for teachers without dance training as well as for dance educators, the book takes a student-directed approach--you provide the students clear directions, and they create their own projects. Dance Units for Middle School provides you with everything you need to facilitate dance units: *Teacher scripts to direct your students' work and to increase your comfort level *Strategies for facilitating student dance and making it fun *A DVD with 77 reproducibles and video demonstrations of all skills *A music CD that saves you time in locating appropriate music to accompany lessons and student work *Three complete dance units for grades 6 through 8 (improvisation, dance for athletes, and jazz dance, respectively Each unit includes eight or nine age-appropriate lessons, rubrics, objectives, warm-ups, information on physical and cognitive development, and warm-ups. The units also supply scripted lesson plans to increase your comfort level and group performance projects that the students create. In addition, you will see how each lesson matches to the National Dance Standards. The DVD provides 77 reproducibles, including signs, assignments, and assessments that you and your students can use in assessing group projects. The DVD also contains videos of the warm-ups, all skills and combinations, and easy-to-follow progressions. Your students follow along as they watch the video clips, demonstrating the skills and combinations that they are learning on the video. With the detailed instruction, the teacher scripts, the handouts, the music, and the lessons, Dance Units for MiddleSchool is a great resource for you in teaching dance, no matter your previous dance experience. Your students will learn basic dance steps and will build on skills from unit to unit, seeing improvement in their performances from grade to grade. After teaching several units, you might even want to add your own creativity to the lessons. But for now, you can rely fully on the instructions and materials provided by Dance Units for Middle School. You'll be learning along with the students and providing them fun performance opportunities and a chance to make dance a lifetime fitness activity.

A practical book for Junior/Intermediate grade teachers who are new or inexperienced in arts education. Introduces all the elements of dance, drama, music and visual arts and shows educators how to use the arts to support literacy and other subjects.

Traditional Barn Dances With Calls & Fiddling will help you - learn folk dances and authentic tunes that have been performed for over 350 years in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the British Isles; - teach 53 dances to participants of all ages and abilities regardless of your experience in dance instruction; and - impart appropriate historical and cultural information about each dance. Dance instruction has never been made easier than with Traditional Barn Dances With Calls & Fiddling. Created by Dudley Laufman, a traditional New England dance caller and fiddler, and his cofiddler, Jacqueline Laufman, who have more than 80 years of combined experience, this book, DVD, and two-CD package contains everything you need for learning to teach 53 dances to participants of all ages and abilities. Music, calls, and dance steps are included for Virginia Reel, Portland Fancy, Paul Jones, Grand March, Seven-Step Polka, Farandole, and Jefferson and Liberty and more.