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Drama in the Grade 7-12 Classroom

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Drama works : teacher's resource / by Kirsty Cunningham Irvine, Joe Tirone.
Call Number: PN1701 .I785 2013 new text
ISBN: 9781552395202
Publication Date: 2013
Drama Works is your one-stop sourcebook for texts, theory, and activities. This colourful and visually engaging student resource offers current, accessible, and performance-ready approaches to the study of high school dramatic arts and encourages students to connect theoretical knowledge, play, and text excerpts with the tools needed to devise, adapt, and stage their own original works. Each chapter follows a three-part structure—Minds On, Action, and Consolidation—that mirrors the natural continuum of student skill development and allows for use in multiple grade levels. Extended screenplay excerpts have been carefully selected to help illustrate genre concepts and offer a range of classic and contemporary choices. - publisher's website

Getting Started: Creating an Ensemble
Chapter 1: An Actor's Tools
Chapter 2: Improvisation: It's All Imagination
Chapter 3: Creating Character
Chapter 4: Ritual, Myth, and the Emergence of Greek Theatre
Chapter 5: Commedia dell'Arte
Chapter 6: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
Chapter 7: Modern Drama Gets Real
Chapter 8: Theatre for Change
Chapter 9: Contemporary Canadian Voices
Chapter 10: Playwriting

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Spotlight resource

How to Teach a Play: Essential Exercises for Popular Plays by Miriam M. Chirico and Kelly Younger
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781350017559
Publication Date: 2020
"Featuring more than 80 exercises, How to Teach a Play provides teaching strategies for the most commonly taught plays, ranging from classical through contemporary drama. Developed by contributors from a range of disciplines, these exercises reveal the variety of practitioners that make up the theatrical arts; they are written by playwrights, theater directors, and artistic directors, as well as by dramaturgs and drama scholars. In bringing together so many different perspectives, this book highlights the distinctive qualities that makes theater such a dynamic genre." publisher
Dramawise Reimagined : Learning to Manage the Elements of Drama by HASEMAN, BRAD
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2017
A revised edition of the 1986 classic. "...Dramawise Reimagined is an essential text for all drama educators. It offers tried and tested recipes for drama that work; along with many fresh ideas and contemporary scenarios to explore. This is a highly research and practice-informed work, with contemporary relevance, models of practice grounded in both traditional and cutting-edge scripts. However, what I admire most about Dramawise Reimagined is that it is clearly written by drama educators who know the challenges of teaching drama and above all, know how to engage students in drama. " Rev. by Christina C. Gray
The Art of Drama Teaching by Mike Fleming
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2019
"This classic edition of Mike Fleming's The Art of Drama Teaching provides a multitude of practical ideas for teachers of drama and for those who are interested in using drama to teach other subjects. It takes the form of detailed discussion of twenty-five drama techniques including but not limited to: beginnings and endings monologue and narration off-stage action and reported action mime irony time shifts minor characters Each technique, topic or convention is illustrated by a carefully chosen extract from a play and accompanied by a commentary and practical examples of lesson tasks." publisher
The English Teacher's Drama Handbook by Nick McGuinn
Call Number: PN3171 .M354 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Divided into two sections, the first part explores your own practice within a theoretical and historical context. The second offers a collection of comprehensive, practical schemes to inspire and support you and your students. Suitable for a range of ages and abilities.
Special Talents, Special Needs by Ian McCurrach; Barbara Darnley
Call Number: LC4704.5 .M23 1999
Publication Date: 1999
'A wonderful book to help set up a drama group for those with learning difficulties, to help them express themselves through drama. It is a step by step guide to running a group from the basics of finding the setting right through to the final performance.