Strategy Schemes provide a framework for structuring the learning. This practical and useful book features a host of sources for improving classroom instruction, including scripts, monologues, poetry, novel excerpts, and visual images.
Each chapter is organized around a framework that will engage students as they experience a wealth of dramatic activity.
Organized around universal themes that invite students to make connections to texts and to each other, the book encourages students to consider their own identities and their place in the world. Drama Schemes, Themes & Dreams offers a comprehensive outline of improvisation and interpretation strategies that teachers can incorporate in classroom instruction.
This remarkable collection of resources shows teachers how to guide their students through the drama process. Spinelli, Jerry (2000) Stargirl (sequel: Love, Stargirl). Cameron, Peter (2007) Someday this Pain Will Be Useful to You. NOVELS FEATURING ADOLESCENT OUTCASTS Anderson, Laurie Halse (1999) Speak. Nevertheless, the writers have lived extensively in or identify as being from Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United States of America, and Wales.” -IntroductionĢ. I hesitate to list the nationalities of all of the contributors here because quite a few have themselves crossed international boundaries in different ways, by either studying abroad or finding permanent residency in foreign countries. “I am very excited that this book will be placing even more emphasis on children’s literature in an international scene than my first book did, in the sense that I have added more scholars on an international level. Not only am I interested in discussing what these changes across boundaries mean socially, historically, and culturally, but also what they mean geographically, which accounts for the second part of my title. I included the word ‘boundaries’ into the title because we never get tired of voicing our opinions about texts which traverse relegated boundaries, such as genre or medium. If we believe that ‘no text is an island,’ then we will understand that the relationships between and within texts across the years become a fascinating place for academic inquiry. “As the first part of the title indicates, my interest in looking at intertextuality and transformation still maintains a prominent place throughout this book as well. it explores the “provincial pieties” of “normal” high school 1 2 Richard Peck, Love and Death at the Mall: Teaching and Writing . No writer guides his young characters, and his readers, past these pitfalls and challenges and toward their futures with more compassion.” -The New York TimesĬHAPTER TWENTY- TWO JERRY SPINELLI'S STARGIRL AS CONTEMPORARY GOSPEL: GOOD NEWS FOR A WORLD OF ADOLESCENT. In Love, Stargirl, we hear the voice of Stargirl herself as she reflects on time, life, Leo, and - of course - love. In her writing, Stargirl mixes memories of her bittersweet time in Mica, Arizona, with involvements with new people in her life. The novel takes the form of "the world's longest letter," in diary form, going from date to date through a little more than a year's time. The New York Times bestselling sequel to Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli’s modern-day classic Stargirl, now an original film on Disney+! And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday! Love, Stargirl picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl.