Readers Theatre For Young Adults: Scripts and Script Development

by Kathy Howard Latrobe, Mildred Knight Laughlin

Overview

Twelve reproducible scripts from the classics serve as examples of the readers theatre format. In addition, the authors have identified scenes from 30 contemporary novels (e.g., Prairie Songs, Tex, Gentlehands, Z for Zachariah) that are suitable for adaptation to readers theatre. An annotated bibliography of recommended works completes the guide. This unique teaching tool helps students develop a thorough understanding of theme, character, and drama.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872877436
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/15/1989
Series:	Readers Theatre
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.31(d)
Age Range:	10 - 13 Years

About the Author

KATHY HOWARD LATROBE is Professor, University of Oklahoma School of Library and Information Studies, Norman.

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Table of Contents

	Preface	xi
Part I	Readers Theatre
	Introduction	3
	What Readers Theatre Is	3
	Why Readers Theatre	3
	What to Use for a Script	4
	How to Select a Script	4
	Scripting Techniques	5
	How to Select/Prepare Readers	6
	Presentation Techniques	7
	Determining the Success of the Presentation	7
	Notes	7
Part II	Completed Scripts
	Bronte, Emily--Wuthering Heights	11
	Cervantes, Miguel de--The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha	16
	Crane, Stephen--The Red Badge of Courage	19
	Dickens, Charles--The Personal History of David Copperfield	23
	Dickens, Charles--A Tale of Two Cities	26
	Eliot, George--Silas Marner	31
	Hawthorne, Nathaniel--The House of the Seven Gables	35
	Hawthorne, Nathaniel--The Scarlet Letter	39
	Irving, Washington--Rip Van Winkle	45
	London, Jack--White Fang	49
	Poe, Edgar Allan--The Purloined Letter	53
	Shelley, Mary W.--Frankenstein	59
	Stevenson, Robert Louis--The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	63
	Twain, Mark--A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	65
	Twain, Mark--The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	70
	Wilde, Oscar--The Picture of Dorian Gray	73
Part III	Suggested Scripts
	Avi--Wolf Rider: A Tale of Terror	81
	Bess, Clayton--Tracks	82
	Bickham, Jack--All the Days Were Summer	83
	Blume, Judy--Tiger Eyes	84
	Bradbury, Ray--Something Wicked This Way Comes	85
	Brooks, Bruce--The Moves Make the Man	86
	Butterworth, W. E.--LeRoy and the Old Man	87
	Clapp, Patricia--The Tamarack Tree	88
	Colman, Hila--Weekend Sisters	89
	Conrad, Pam--Prairie Songs	90
	Cormier, Robert--I Am the Cheese	91
	Dixon, Paige--May I Cross Your Golden River?	92
	Duncan, Lois--I Know What You Did Last Summer	93
	Dygard, Thomas J.--Wilderness Peril	94
	Garfield, Leon--Footsteps	95
	Geller, Mark--My Life in the Seventh Grade	96
	Golding, William--Lord of the Flies	97
	Greene, Betty--Summer of My German Soldier	98
	Guest, Judith--Ordinary People	99
	Guy, Rosa--The Disappearance	100
	Hall, Lynn--The Solitary	101
	Hinton, S. E.--Tex	102
	Hunter, Mollie--Cat, Herself	103
	Irwin, Hadley--Abby, My Love	104
	Kerr, M. E.--Gentlehands	105
	Le Guin, Ursula K.--Very Far Away from Anywhere Else	106
	Mahy, Margaret--The Catalogue of the Universe	107
	Neufeld, John--Lisa, Bright and Dark	108
	Nixon, Joan Lowery--The Other Side of Dark	109
	Nixon, Joan Lowery--The Stalker	110
	O'Brien, Robert C.--Z for Zachariah	111
	Oneal, Zibby--A Formal Feeling	112
	Paterson, Katherine--Jacob Have I Loved	113
	Paulsen, Gary--Hatchet	114
	Peck, Richard--Father Figure	115
	Peck, Richard--Remembering the Good Times	116
	Skurzynski, Gloria--What Happened in Hamelin	117
	Sleator, William--Singularity	118
	Yolen, Jane--The Gift of Sarah Barker	119
	Zindel, Paul--The Pigman	120
	Annotated Bibliography	121
	Bibliography for Completed Scripts	121
	Bibliography for Suggested Scripts	122
	Index	126