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Doyle, Esther M., Ed.; Floyd, Virginia Hastings, Ed. – 1977
The purpose of this second book of 21 self-contained essays is the same as that of the first volume published in 1972: to bring together the scholarly theory and current research regarding oral interpretation. One third of the essays are centered on literature itself: prose fiction, poetry, and the drama. These essays discuss topics such as point…
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Audiences, Drama, Fiction
Charleroi Area Junior-Senior High School, PA. – 1975
The courses presented in this curriculum guide have been developed according to the premises that reading should be approached humanistically and that speaking and writing should emphasize the understanding of processes and the developing of skills for oral and written communication. Every tenth grade student must take a basic communication…
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), Communication (Thought Transfer), Curriculum Guides, Language Arts
East Allen County Schools, New Haven, IN. – 1973
A language arts program for the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades is detailed in this document. Outlines of the scope and sequence of course components and lists of program objectives are given for each grade. Following these program objectives, the document consists of outline sketches for each course topic, including the scope and sequence of…
Descriptors: Business English, Communications, Curriculum Guides, Debate
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Hoover, Nancy Roahrig – 1976
In order to compile an inventory of secondary school cocurricular dramatics programs in the Jefferson County, Kentucky, public schools, eleven principals, eighteen teachers, and eighty students were randomly selected from thirteen high schools, five junior high schools, and five middle schools. Respondents completed questionnaires concerning the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Creative Dramatics, Dramatics, Masters Theses
Addington, David W., Ed.; Kepke, Allen N., Ed. – 1973
This journal provides a focal point for the collection and distribution of systematically processed information about theory and practice in theatre. Part of an irregularly published series, this issue contains investigations of the application of transactional analysis to the theatre, the psychological effect of counterattitudinal acting in…
Descriptors: Body Image, Body Language, Child Development, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Addington, David W., Ed.; Kepke, Allen N., Ed. – 1974
This journal provides a focal point for the collection and distribution of systematically processed information about theory and practice in theatre. Part of an irregularly published series, this volume contains investigations of audience information processing and its relationship to subject sex and stimulus complexity, manipulation and…
Descriptors: Audiences, Communication (Thought Transfer), Creativity Research, Dramatics
Bradley, David – Opinion, The Journal of the South Australian English Teachers' Assn., 1968
A strictly literary study of drama can be misleading, but plays brought alive through dramatic activities and productions may be the most profitable core of the secondary-school humanities program. The practical study of drama requires the student's active imagination, self-discipline, creative and positive responses to situations, improvisation,…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Dramatics, Creative Teaching, Curriculum Development
Rivas, Frank W. – 1974
For nine years the National Assessment of Education Progress has attempted to measure behaviors that are assumed to correlate with sensitivity to music and analytic skills typically taught in the classroom. These skills included musical performance, ability to use traditional notation, ability to discriminate and label instruments and voices,…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Evaluation
Zelmer, A. C. Lynn – 1973
Basic information on media forms which are commonly encountered by community groups is presented. The work as a whole is designed to serve as a reference manual for community organizations and volunteer groups which are inexperienced with respect to media and which lack the resources or the desire to hire professional experts; the emphasis…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Communications, Community, Community Development
Silber, Kenneth H.; Ewing, Gerald W. – 1971
The authors define environmental simulation as the selection, manipulation and/or modification of any number and combination of the five senses to create an experience which simulates a real or imaginary environment. They see the goal of environmental simulation as producing affective-cognitive-psychomotor outcomes which can be set, modified,…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Audiovisual Aids, Demonstration Centers, Facility Requirements
National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC. – 1970
This document describes the activities and programs of several national agencies for the arts. It discusses the following branches of the arts: architecture, dance, education, literature, music, public media, theatre, and visual arts. It also discusses the financial status of these agencies and public and private contributions to their funds. In…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Art Activities, Creative Art, Creative Writing
Youngblood, Gene – 1970
Today, our environment is created more by television and cinema than by nature. Our view of what human nature is and might be is conditioned by what we see in those media. Films which make use of traditional genres only reinforce traditional views. They do not force us to new ones. But new filmmakers are creating "synaesthetic" cinema, which…
Descriptors: Animation, Audiences, Bionics, Computer Graphics
Oregon Univ., Eugene. Oregon Elementary English Project. – 1971
These curriculum guides are designed to introduce drama to students at the fifth and sixth grade level. The teacher's guide for each of the two grade levels presents 41 lessons. Each lesson includes a description of objectives and various exercises, including movement warm-ups, concentration warm-ups, descriptions of the character type to be…
Descriptors: Acting, Curriculum Guides, Drama, Dramatic Play
Nye, Russel – 1970
This book is a study of certain of the popular arts in American society, that is, the arts in their customarily accepted genres. "Popular" is interpreted to mean "generally dispersed and approved"--descriptive of those artistic productions which express the taste and understanding of the majority and which are free of control, in content and…
Descriptors: Art, Art Products, Attitudes, Cultural Activities
Ashton, Dudley, Ed.; Irey, Charlotte, Ed. – 1972
This booklet represents an effort to assist teachers and administrators in the professional planning of dance facilities and equipment. Three chapters present the history of dance facilities, provide recommended dance facilities and equipment, and offer some adaptations of dance facilities and equipment, for elementary, secondary and college level…
Descriptors: Building Design, Colleges, Controlled Environment, Dance
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