Now I Get It: 12 Ten-Minute Classroom Drama Skits for Science, Math, Language, and Social Studies Volume II : Grades 4-6 (Young Actors Series) - Softcover

McCullough, L. E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575251620 ISBN 13: 9781575251622

Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Provides a collection of skits meant to be used by teachers as interactive explaining material, with each skit including exercises and discussion questions, covering grammar, writing, vocabulary, math, science, and social studies.

About this title

About the Author:

L. E. McCULLOUGH, PhD is an educator, playwright, composer, and ethnomusicologist whose studies in music and folklore have spanned cultures throughout the world. He is the author of twenty books of plays, monologues, and scenes for Smith and Kraus. L. E. now has 17 titles in print for young actors.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 4-6-Tired teachers who practice what McCullough preaches, "Anyone Can Produce Plays with Kids," should be pleased with this offering. These skits tackle apostrophe usage, homonyms and homophones, the metric system, fractions, flight of birds, magnets, energy, time zones, governments of the world, Seneca Falls 1848, and recycling-all in tidy 10-minute skits. Each one is complete with concept identification, activities, discussion questions, and production notes. In the foreword, the author suggests expanding the skits to fit one's classroom space or curriculum needs and states, "once you've got the hang of it, have students write their own plays-." This is one of the best suggestions offered. Self-produced skits that sound like kids talking are far more successful with the intended audience than those written by adults mimicking them. Expecting "anyone" to handle teaching science, math, language, and social science with theater arts with equal success is a tall order, but panicked substitutes with no lesson plans or a rainy-day recess to cover might try a skit to focus a class or start a conversation. Most teachers will be able to get "the hang of it" without all of McCullough's epistles.

Jody McCoy, The Bush School, Seattle, WA

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About this edition

• Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1575251620
• ISBN 13: 9781575251622
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140