Dramatizing Classic Poetry: For Middle and High School Students (Young Actors Series)

Dramatizing Classic Poetry is an ideal way to involve students in classic literature and to integrate dramatization with the study of poems as literature. Written for teachers and recreational leaders with varying degrees of dramatic arts experience, tihs unique book contains:

More than 50 classic poems scripted to dramatize in the classroom and onstage.

Authors included are Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Allen Poe, Christina Rossetti, e. e. cummings, Lewis Carroll, Walt Whitman, and others.

Costume pieces and rhythm instrument suggestions to involve students completely in the poems and to make the poems fully alive.

Each poem includes Explanations of Poetic Devices and Topics for Critical Thinking, Writing, and Art for teachers to copy.

Many ways to dramatize poetry in the classroom and onstage including methods involving the whole class, in pairs, small groups, as traveling troupes, and with English Language Learners.

A Poetry Performance Script giving all students in a class of thirty-five significant roles by including storytellers, actor-reciters and a sound crew.

Louise Thistle teaches students of all ages how to dramatize literature. She also gives staff development training. She is an actress and the author of six books, including Dramatizing Mother Goose, and two award-winning plays.