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, ...
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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 adn 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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Good. 1999 edition. Paper softcover has light wear. Binding is uncreased. There is a name on front endpaper. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. Oversized, 259 pages. LO.
