The Magic of Middle School Musicals
The Magic of Middle School Musicals

Author: Victor V. Bobetsky

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2008-12-16

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1578869811

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Working on a musical is exciting for students, teachers, and the entire middle school community! As the first musical theater book especially for middle school productions, The Magic of Middle School Musicals provides a step-by-step guide for success. Bobetsky approaches planning and producing musicals in the context of a curricular unit of study and includes strategies for assessing student learning. Dr. Victor V. Bobetsky, a former New York City middle school music teacher, begins with advice on how to select a musical, obtain copyright permission, and arrange the music for middle school voices. He discusses strategies for teaching the music in the choral classroom, auditioning, casting, and rehearsal procedures. Practical suggestions show directors how to work with student actors, create choreography, and manage scenery, set design, costumes, lighting, and more. The Magic of Middle School Musicals gives music teachers the information and confidence they need to artistically adapt musicals from the American repertoire to the middle school level so that teachers, students, and audiences can experience and enjoy this unique, familiar, and musically expressive genre!

Singing in the Lower Secondary School
Singing in the Lower Secondary School

Author: Martin Ashley

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2015-04-02

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0191057959

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This is an essential text on an important area of the music curriculum consistently judged weak or inadequate by school inspectors in Britain. It covers social, physiological, musical, and pedagogical aspects of young adolescent singing, with focus on Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14) and the progression from primary school. Grounded in extensive research and authoritatively written, it uses case studies to illustrate best practice, and introduces the principles of cambiata, a dedicated approach to the adolescent voice. Other chapters contain practical and proven advice on repertoire, technique, and the motivation of reluctant singers, boosting the confidence of teachers for whom choral work is not the main specialism.

Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater
Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater

Author: Donelle Ruwe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-02-19

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1317167732

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Bringing together scholars from musicology, literature, childhood studies, and theater, this volume examines the ways in which children's musicals tap into adult nostalgia for childhood while appealing to the needs and consumer potential of the child. The contributors take up a wide range of musicals, including works inspired by the books of children's authors such as Roald Dahl, P.L. Travers, and Francis Hodgson Burnett; created by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lionel Bart, and other leading lights of musical theater; or conceived for a cast made up entirely of children. The collection examines musicals that propagate or complicate normative attitudes regarding what childhood is or should be. It also considers the child performer in movie musicals as well as in professional and amateur stage musicals. This far-ranging collection highlights the special place that musical theater occupies in the imaginations and lives of children as well as adults. The collection comes at a time of increased importance of musical theater in the lives of children and young adults.

A Study Guide for Howard Ashman's "Little Shop of Horrors"
A Study Guide for Howard Ashman's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published:

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1410392511

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A Study Guide for Howard Ashman's "Little Shop of Horrors", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.

The Mystwick School of Musicraft
The Mystwick School of Musicraft

Author: Jessica Khoury

Publisher: Clarion Books

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 132862563X

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Twelve-year-old Amelia gets the opportunity to attend a boarding school and learn how to use music to create magic, hoping to become a Maestro like her deceased mother.

The Magic of Middle School Musicals
The Magic of Middle School Musicals

Author: Victor V. Bobetsky

Publisher: R & L Education

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781578868674

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As the first musical theater book especially for middle school productions, The Magic of Middle School Musical provides a step-by-step guide for success. Bobetsky approaches planning and producing musicals in the context of a curricular unit of study and includes strategies for assessing student learning.

Bad Magic
Bad Magic

Author: Pseudonymous Bosch

Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Published: 2015-02-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 140959128X

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This book is incredibly BAD. It does not contain MAGIC. Or a mysterious ghost girl. Or spontaneous combustion. Or Spanish-speaking llamas. Nope. None of these things. Okay... maybe one of these things. But certainly not MAGIC. It’s just an ordinary tale of a normal boy who goes to summer camp on a desert island. Nothing exciting or weird happens. The camp is definitely NOT for crazy, badly-behaved kids, and there are NO SECRETS or MYSTERIES at all. And absolutely NO MAGIC whatsoever...

Build It, Make It, Do It, Play It!
Build It, Make It, Do It, Play It!

Author: Catharine Bomhold

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-06-30

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1598843923

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A valuable, one-stop guide to collection development and finding ideal subject-specific activities and projects for children and teens. For busy librarians and educators, finding instructions for projects, activities, sports, and games that children and teens will find interesting is a constant challenge. This guide is a time-saving, one-stop resource for locating this type of information—one that also serves as a valuable collection development tool that identifies the best among thousands of choices, and can be used for program planning, reference and readers' advisory, and curriculum support. Build It, Make It, Do It, Play It! identifies hundreds of books that provide step-by-step instructions for creating arts and crafts, building objects, finding ways to help the disadvantaged, or engaging in other activities ranging from gardening to playing games and sports. Organized by broad subject areas—arts and crafts, recreation and sports (including indoor activities and games), and so forth—the entries are further logically organized by specific subject, ensuring quick and easy use.

Reading Nonfiction
Reading Nonfiction

Author: G. Kylene Beers

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780325050805

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"Nonfiction intrudes into our world and purports to tell the truth. To evaluate that truth, we need students to be sophisticated, skillful, and savvy readers. And that's why Kylene and Bob wrote Reading Nonfiction, a book that presents: 3 big questions that develop the stance needed for attentive reading; 5 signposts that help readers analyze and evaluate the author's craft; and 7 strategies that develop relevance and fix up confusions"--Back cover.