Enact - Drama for the Classroom
Author: Hazel Edwards
Publisher: Teaching Solutions
ISBN:
Book 1 (Years 1-2) - ISBN 978-1-921454-24-0
Book 2 (Years 3-4) - ISBN 978-1-921454-25-7
Book 3 (Years 5-6/7) - ISBN 978-1-921454-26-4
Book 4 - History - ISBN 978-1-921454-71-4
- Mixed script types, including flexible casts & length, outside staging and choral work, with costuming from very simple to 'dressed up'.
- Reading range from non-readers, to a good-reader narrator.
- Subjects link to curriculum topics.
- Minimum/maximum cast numbers provided.
- Overlapping possibilities exist for audio with SFX, puppetry, web cams, screenplays and videos, as well as for festivals or school assemblies.
- Can be done simply in one period with parts for all via elastic choruses.
- Easy for non-drama specialists — each play has teaching notes.
- All trialed in schools & photocopiable.
Latest release in the Enact Series - Enact: History
History doesn't date, but interpretations may change.
Student-actors are encouraged to check facts and evaluate, as well as have fun playing around with historic role models.
Enact: History contains proven classroom playscripts enabling students to become acquainted with significant personalities and inspired to evaluate their actions and historic impact
- Medical, political, entrepreneurial, literary, agricultural, sporting and media role models but often with a quirky twist
- Suitable for mixed classrooms & eisteddfods but including enterprising females (AND males) from our history
- Each classroom playscript has bio, fast research data and follow up activities as well as flexible casting and easy props
- Inter-active suggestions for audio or webcam adaptations and opportunities for additional student input such as alternative endings or extra cast.
Review
ENACT
Reviewed by South African bookseller Audrey Hitchcock's newsletter 'Off the Shelf'
Sept 2009
I have always found it difficult to find really good publications that share the ways and means of working with pupils to get the best from Drama classes. At last, there is a programme that goes beyond the play scripts and provides a wealth of ideas to get all involved in moving and language to reflect the best from a story.
Edwards, Hazel (Teaching Solutions)
Hazel Edwards is no stranger to children's fiction- you may be lucky enough to have a copy of THERE'S A HIPPO ON MY ROOF EATING ! For those who have been on the look out for good, exciting material to use in drama sessions, here is an answer to a prayer! Carefully researched so that text allows for the non-reader to be involved alongside the fluent reader, these texts maintain a good storyline and can be used with a multi- media range. Each of the plays is accompanied with notes for the teacher so that one does not have to be a specialist teacher to get the most from the ideas. There are three books in the series covering Grades 1&2; 3 & 4; and 5,6 & 7. Each graded in difficulty.