Abstract
“I have no idea what those characters are saying! I don’t understand their language!” or “Why do we have to learn this stuff?” Such words were often what my high school students said when confronted with a Shakespearean play or a text written in another time period. Reading selections in high school British, American, or World Literature anthologies are sometimes difficult texts for students, or they present topics that students cannot possibly understand without putting themselves into the shoes of the characters involved.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
REFERENCES
Adler, D. A. (1993). A picture book of Frederick Douglass. (S. Byrd, Illus.). New York: Holiday House.
Bontemps, A. (ed.) (1941). GoldenSslippers: An anthology of Negro poetry for young readers. New York: Harper & Row.
Hughes, L. & Bontemps, A. (eds.) (1970). The poetry of the Negro, 1746–1970. Garden City: Doubleday.
Manley, A. & O’Neill, C. (1997). Dreamseekers: Creative approaches to the African American heritage. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2011 Sense Publishers
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Toepfer, M. (2011). Bring the Story to Life: Using Drama With Literature. In: Dowdy, J.K., Kaplan, S. (eds) Teaching Drama in the Classroom. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-537-6_19
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-537-6_19
Publisher Name: SensePublishers
Online ISBN: 978-94-6091-537-6
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and LawEducation (R0)
