Ann N. Black

Readers Theatre for Middle School Boys (eBook, PDF)

Investigating the Strange and Mysterious

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book, focusing on active, engaging material, will fill a void in the literature that currently exists for these students, their teachers, and literacy coaches. Readers theatre for boys and particularly middle school boys is a publishing gap that needs to be filled. Selections have been chosen to tempt middle school boys interest (the blood and gore in Masque of the Red Death for example). Literacy remains a major topic of concern in all academic circles, especially the inadequate performance of reading and writing by boys. These scripts will entertain as they build reading fluency. Grades 6-8.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313363894
• Artikelnr.: 37828202

Autorenporträt

Ann N. Black, graduated from Northwestern University, where she received a B.S. from the School of Communication, then worked as an actress, writer, and producer of children's radio dramas. After acquiring a Texas Secondary Teaching Certificate in Language Arts, she taught English to 7th, 8th, and 9th grade students and developed Readers Theatre projects for them. Her experiences from directing, teaching, and writing led her to a M.A. in English and Oral Interpretation from the University of North Texas, then to an assistant professorship of literature and creative writing at Northwestern State University of Louisiana.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Acknowledgments Robert Browning
Rats and Fools from "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" Mary Peace Finley
"Mary Peace Finley Spells Danger in White Grizzly" Gawain-poet
Strange Encounters with "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" O. Henry
Twisting the Tale with "The Ransom of Red Chief" Washington Irving
Headless in "Sleepy Hollow" with Washington Irving W.W. Jacobs
Beware! "The Monkey's Paws" by W.W. Jacobs Jack London
Desperation Grows "To Light a Fire" by Jack London Edgar Allan Poe
A Gruesome End with "The Masque of Red Death" Herbert G. Wells
H.G. Wells in the "Country of the Blind" Sound Appendix Index