Teacher's Guide for My First Acting Series

Dabrowski, Kristen

ISBN 10: 1575256061 / ISBN 13: 9781575256061

Published by Smith & Kraus Pub Inc (edition ), 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Teacher's Guide for My First Acting Series
• Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc (edition )
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575256061
• ISBN 13: 9781575256061
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Liven up your class!All the books in my first acting series have interactive exercises and games. But the Teachers Guide goes much further, providing suggestions and in-depth guidance for using the series to maximum effect in the classroom. Inside, you'll find:* Building Blocks: general ideas and suggestions for creating great lessons.* Critical Exercises: activities and games to help students interpret and evaluate text.* Imaginative Exercises: activities and games to help students creatively build on the text, generating brand-new ideas.* Work Sheets: a variety of fun and exciting activities that encourage students to interpret characters and texts and make decisions-all ready to photocopy direct from the book and distribute.* Sample Lesson Plans: fourteen detailed lesson plans that show you how to draw it all together. These plans help you to either build a lesson around my first acting series

About the Author

Kristen Dabrowski is a writer, actress, teacher, and director residing in New York City. Her experience teaching and directing students ages 5 21 has inspired her to research, write, and road-test her best-selling books for Smith and Kraus including the monologue collections The Ultimate Audition Book for Teens 3, 11, and 12; the 10+ series of short plays, scenes and monologues (6 volumes); the Teens Speak series (4 volumes of monologues), 20 Ten-Minute Plays for Teens Volume 1; and The Ultimate Monologue Book for Middle School Actors Volumes 1 and 4. She received an MFA from The Oxford School of Drama and has taught acting, voice, dialects, and playwriting at such institutions as Montclair State University, the McCarter Theatre, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and The Actor s Institute. Kristen is a member of Actors Equity and The Dramatists Guild.



M. Ramirez is a Miami native and a graduate of NYU s Dramatic Writing program. His monologues and scenes for young actors have won Critic s Choice Awards at Thespian Society Competitions at District, State, and National Levels. He is a two-time winner of the Latino Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center s American College Theatre Festival. His plays have been produced at FringeNYC, the Mad Cat Theatre Company, City Theatre s Summer Shorts, and Actors Theatre of Louisville.