Drama Activities for K-6 Students Creating

This user-friendly book provides poems and stories accompanied by dramatic activities to help elementary school teachers create and maintain a peaceful classroom environment.

Carmine Tabone is executive director and founder of Educational Arts Team and serves as an adjunct professor of theater education at New York University. Dorothy Napp Schindel is director of DramaMUSE Associates. She served as an adjunct professor in the Program in Educational Theater at New York University. Milton E. Polsky has recently served as an adjunct professor of education at Hofstra University, New York.

Acknowledgments

ix

Foreword

xi

Introduction

xv

CHAPTER ONE Getting Started

1

(22)

Guiding Students to Work in Groups

2

(4)

Ten Things for Young People to Practice

6

(1)

How to Transform Stories Into Plays With Students (Grades K-2)

7

(2)

How to Transform Stories Into Plays With Students (Grades 3-6)

9

(3)

Rubric for Revising: ACTED IT

12

(1)

Storytelling Suggestions

13

(1)

Become Animals, Birds, and Sea Creatures

13

(3)

More Helpful Tips: Becoming Animals, Birds, and Sea Creatures

16

(2)

Using Pantomime

18

(1)

Creating a Tableau

18

(2)

Making Classroom Scenery, Costumes, and Simple Props

20

(2)

Keep in Mind

22

(1)

CHAPTER TWO Caring and Sharing

23

(34)

Story: "Animals, Birds, and Sea Creatures Help Skywoman Create the Earth"—Native American Myth (Grades K-3)

24

(4)

More Helpful Tips: Sounds in Harmony

28

(2)

Story: "The Friendly Forest" (Grades K-2)

30

(5)

More Helpful Tips: How to Use Transformations

35

(1)

"Why Do the Young Hawks Cry?"—Native American Poem (All Grades)

35

(3)

Poem: "Me, Myself, and I" (Grades K-6)

38

(3)

Poem: "Helpful/Unhelpful Advice" by Howard Berland (Grades 3-6)

41

(2)

Mandala Picture Project (Grades 3-6)

43

(5)

Story: "The Three Questions"—Russian Folktale (Grades3-6)

48

(6)

Helpful Resources

54

(1)

Review and Move On

55

(2)

CHAPTER THREE Conflict and Consequences

57

(36)

More Helpful Tips: Become Drama Detectives A Nursery Rhyme: "Little Miss Muffett"

58

(1)

Second Chances

59

(1)

Story: "When Frog and Mouse Were Friends" United States of America (Grades 3-6)

60

(3)

Story: "The Quail's Story"—Asian Folktale (Grades 3-6)

63

(5)

Story: "The Curse of the Water Monster Creature" Australian Folktale (Grades 3-6)

68

(8)

More Helpful Tips: Writing a Short Play (Grades 3-6)

76

(2)

Aesop's Fable: "The Goose With the Golden Eggs" Ancient Greece (Grades 3-6)

78

(2)

More Helpful Tips: Make Simple Puppets (All Grades)

80

(2)

More Helpful Tips: Put On an In-Class Radio Show (Grades 3-6)

82

(1)

Story: "The Emperor's New Suit of Armor" (Grades 3-6)

83

(7)

More Helpful Tips: Make Up a Group Story Right on the Spot

90

(1)

Helpful Resources

91

(2)

CHAPTER FOUR Bullying and Teasing

93

(32)

Story: "The Three Billy Goats Gruff"—English Folktale (Grades K-2)

94

(3)

Story: "Beetle and Rat"—Amazonian Folktale (Grades 3-6)

97

(7)

Story: "Rosie's Story"—United States of America (Grades K-3)

104

(4)

Story: "Swinnmy" (Grades 3-6)

108

(11)

More Helpful Tips: Creating Scenes and Assigning Roles

119

(1)

More Examples of Possible Scenes in Sequence for Swimmy

119

(2)

More Helpful Tips: Designing a Scenario

121

(3)

Helpful Resources

124

(1)

CHAPTER FIVE Envisioning Peace

125

(44)

Story: "The Tree of Peace"—Native American Story (Grades 3-6)

126

(4)

How to Make a Shadow Play

130

(2)

Shadow Poem: "Sadako and the Thousand Cranes" (Grades 3-6)

132

(4)

Story: "Bring Back a Tiger's Whisker"—Korean Folktale (Grades 3-6)

136

(3)

Story: "The Duck in the Gun"—New Zealand (Grades 3-6)

139

(8)

Paintings and Pictures as Stimuli for Creative Drama: The Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks (Grades 3-6)

147

(9)

"We Still Have A Dream": The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

156

(2)

We Still Have a Dream: From Page to Stage (Grades 3-6)

158

(7)

Dramatizing Poetry (Grades 3-6)

165

(2)

Helpful Resources

167

(2)

About the Authors

169

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