Three Interactive Ways to Teach The Play Tom Sawyer To Your Students
Three Interactive Ways to Teach The Play Tom Sawyer To Your Students Today’s post is Three Interactive Ways to Teach Tom Sawyer To Your Students. Several years ago, (for thirteen years) I taught sixth graders an introduction to theater class in a middle school. All the sixth graders–almost 500 of them each year. If you’d like […]
What is Quora Digest? How Did It Inspire Me as a Drama Teacher
Come From Away What is Quora Digest? How did it Inspire Me as a Drama Teacher How does it relate to musical theater? (In my world, everything relates to theatre somehow.) According to their website, “Quora Digest is the method, Where Quora sends a daily email containing a set of questions with one answer that […]
Who On Earth Created the First Fringe Festival?
Who on earth created the first fringe festival? It’s an interesting question. Last year my husband and I took the trip of a lifetime to Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. One of our last stops was Edinburg, Scotland. Here is a photo of the Edinburg castle. (While we toured the castle, I had an […]
Sedna, an Inuit Folk Tale
Sedna, An Inuit Tale Who lurks in the ocean deep? Sedna is the Inuit goddess of the sea. According to most versions of the legend Sedna was once a beautiful mortal woman who became the ruler of Adlivun (the Inuit underworld at the bottom of the sea) after her father threw her out of his […]
Start a Playwriting Contest Using 20 Questions
Here is the story of probably the most important thing we did in this company: We created a national playwriting contest for large cast youth theatre plays. It is called the Jackie White National Playwriting Award Contest and is still in existence to this day.
Announcing: Bumbling Bea The Play –Act one, Scene one
I’m one of those people who do what they say they are gonna do.
Gulp!
I am adapting Bumbling Bea into a play! (I feel we need trumpets blaring and hi-steppers stepping….)