Teaching Día de los Muertos Through Drama Integration
We teachers are always on the hunt for new materials to teach lesson about different cultures. Honestly, it isn’t always easy to do so. I can help with one important day in the Hispanic culture. Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, offers teachers a wonderful opportunity to bring culture, history, literature, art, […]
Frequently Asked Questions the DramaMommaSpeaks List
Frequently Asked Questions the DramaMommaspeaks List Recently, I had a wonderful opportunity to chat with a first year teacher as he planned the rest of his school year. He began the year with the students all learning from home, then his school went to hybrid (which means half were at home and half were in […]
The Reasons Reader’s Theater is Successful with Our Students
The Reasons Reader’s Theater is Successful with Our Students When I was a little girl, I loved to read aloud. I was good at it, too! I think it’s where I realized performing was something I loved because by reading aloud it gave me an opportunity to try out characters and voices. My teachers readily […]
Fairy Tale Lessons for Drama Class
Fairy Tale Lessons for Drama Class About fifteen years ago, I taught at Smithton Middle School in Columbia, Missouri. I thought I’d probably end up teaching in high school, instead I taught in a middle school–a large one at that! It was a great experience. Every five and a half weeks, seventy-five sixth graders would […]