This performance guide is designed for teachers to use with students before and after a performance of "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck, adapted by Warren Frost and dramatized for the Kennedy Center by Nick Olcott. It is in the form of a Director's Notebook--a scrapbook/journal of clippings, memos, lists, illustrations, notes, and other…

This performance guide is designed for teachers to use with students before and after a performance of Judy Blume's "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing," adapted for the stage by Bruce Mason. The guide, called a "Cuesheet," contains seven activity sheets for use in class, addressing: (1) The Story (offering a brief introduction to…

Anne Fisher, a pioneer in British education, was one of the few females in the 18th century to publish a significant grammatical work, one that was used widely in classrooms. This paper highlights Anne Fisher's historic achievement and argues from the discipline of the history of rhetoric that the two verbal disciplines of rhetoric and grammar are…

This document presents texts from the European Convention on Spectator Violence. The six parts are (1) "Texts Adopted by the Committee of Ministers"; (2) "Texts Adopted at Conferences, Working Parties, and Informal Meetings of European Ministers Responsible for Sport" and "Informal Working Parties/Informal Meeting of…

The present experiment is concerned with providing psychophysiological support for a drive theory of social facilitation and with distinguishing between the mere presence and evaluation apprehension hypothesis. (Author)

Urges professional writers to consider their audience, persona, and subject matter when preparing manuscripts for submission. (DD)

Outlines the critical space dimensions for checking or designing a-v facilities. (Author)

Paper presented at the Second Congress of the International Organization of Sceneographers and Theatre Technicians in Prague, June 1971. (RY)

"The intent of this document is to call attention to the manifest need for rationalized, institutional, and professional planning in order to exploit the new technologies most advantageously. The central assumption of this report is that the impact of the new technology upon educational broadcasting will be determined in great measure by…

Suggests that the popularity of television programing is due to its catering to the public's reluctance to cope with "the other and resistance to change in interpersonal behavior. (RW)

It is the purpose of this paper to examine critically the advantages and disadvantages of TV as an extension tool and to make some suggestions about ways in which it might be used to better effect." Appended are 13 references. (Author/AA)

Reports a study which is part of author's Ph.D. dissertation research, University of Denver. (Editor)

Discusses the strengths and weaknesses in the rhetoric of Eugene V. Debs" in speeches delivered between 1874 and 1926. (Author/SW)

Argues that a recognition of the non-representational nature of the Corpus Christi cycles yields an awareness of the rich, multidimensional theatrical panorama" they created. (Author/RD)