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Readers Theatre for Middle School Boys Ann N. Black

Readers Theatre for Middle School Boys By Ann N. Black

Readers Theatre for Middle School Boys by Ann N. Black


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Summary

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.

Readers Theatre for Middle School Boys Summary

Readers Theatre for Middle School Boys: Investigating the Strange and Mysterious by Ann N. Black

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.

Readers Theatre for Middle School Boys Reviews

"This book provides solid offerings of Readers Theater scripts for educators working with middle school boys. . . . The scripts have a new, fresh feel, and contain plenty of elements to capture and maintain adolescent males' attention. . . . Recommended." - Library Media Connection
"Ann N. Black has rewritten classics for readers theatre appropriate for middle-school boys that lends itself perfectly to the all-male classroom. . . . Black has done a terrific job finding classic literature that particularly appeals to middle-school boys including strange, frightening, and action-packed stories. . . . Black includes a short background on each author and a few paragraphs for teachers concerning production notes for costuming and staging ideas. . . . Though the title explicitly states it is readers theatre for boys, girls could easily play a variety of parts in the selections, so it would be appropriate for any middle school library, speech or drama classroom, or any classroom that studies communication." - Midwest Book Review

About Ann N. Black

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.

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

CIN159158535XG
9781591585350
159158535X
Readers Theatre for Middle School Boys: Investigating the Strange and Mysterious by Ann N. Black
Used - Good
Paperback
ABC-CLIO
2008-01-30
204
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