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Ratliff, Gerald Lee – Secondary School Theatre Journal, 1980
Describes the use of Bertolt Brecht's theories regarding literature and performance. Details the selected use of Reader's Theatre techniques in analyzing and staging literature in the secondary classroom environment. (JMF)
Descriptors: Acting, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creative Dramatics
Download full textRatliff, Gerald Lee – 2000
One of the primary principles of Readers Theater is to "dramatize" literature in classroom performance and to provide a visual and oral stimulus to students who are unaccustomed to using imagination to appreciate literary texts. Readers Theater may be used to enhance the critical study of language; to explore author meaning or point of view; to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Higher Education, Introductory Courses
Peer reviewedWashington, Earl M. – Communication Education, 1981
Defines and illustrates language techniques used by Black authors writing to and for Blacks in the 1960s and 1970s. Suggests how language and theme barriers of such literature might be overcome in a contemporary integrated oral interpretation classroom. (PD)
Descriptors: Authors, Black Culture, Black Dialects, Black Literature
