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Condensing a Play
Cooperative Learning
Costumes
Criteria for Choosing a Play
Demythologizing Performing Shakespeare
English-Language Learners
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Fight Scenes
Language Arts and Reading
Lights
Music
National Teaching Standards
Performances
Product details
- ISBN 9781591588382
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 216 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 19 Nov 2009
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book is a practical, comprehensive, step-by-step guide to performing one of Shakespeare's plays in a classroom, library, or recreational setting.
Shakespeare Kids: Performing his Plays, Speaking his Words opens the world of the Bard to children, providing a wonderful learning experience along the way. Designed as a comprehensive, practical guide to engaging students with the playwright's timeless stories, Shakespeare Kids covers every aspect of production and performance, with step-by-step guidelines on how to choose, cast, rehearse, produce, and perform a play. It even shows you how to condense a play without changing Shakespeare's language.
The book's inclusive approach is based on the author's experience performing these plays with hundreds of students in the classroom and in recreational programs. Each of the ten recommended plays is summarized, with special attractions for performing it with students noted. The rationale for teaching language arts and reading by performing Shakespeare is based on national standards and recent reading research and explains how to differentiate this approach for English learners and students with disabilities. A ready-to-use, condensed script for Macbeth gets you started.
Grades 3-8
Carole Cox is professor in the department of teacher education at California State University, Long Beach, where she was named the Outstanding Professor in 2001.
