Shoes on the Highway: Using Visual and Audio Cues to Inspire Student Playwrights
Author:   Maureen Brady Johnson ,  Gary Garrison
Publisher:   Heinemann USA
ISBN:  

9780325007533


Pages:   144
Publication Date:   01 July 2005
Recommended Age:   From 14 to 17 years
Format:   Paperback
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Shoes on the Highway: Using Visual and Audio Cues to Inspire Student Playwrights


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Grades 9-12   Foreword by Gary Garrison   Award-winning playwright and theatre educator Maureen Brady Johnson offers a jumpstart to teachers who want to take a first step toward teaching playwriting – or any form of creative writing – by offering audio and visual cues that stimulate creativity.

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Author:   Maureen Brady Johnson ,  Gary Garrison
Publisher:   Heinemann USA
Imprint:   Heinemann Educational Books,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.194kg
ISBN:  

9780325007533


ISBN 10:   0325007535
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   01 July 2005
Recommended Age:   From 14 to 17 years
Audience:   Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter Summaries: Take a Quick Look; 1. Significant Object Monologue; 2. Wear the Character; 3. Overheard; 4. Inspired by a Song; 5. A Pile of Junk... a Piece of Theatre. 6. Life... on the Rocks; 7. Shoes on the Highway; Appendix: Photographs of Shoes and Rocks; Appendix: Forms.

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I've been teaching playwriting for almost twenty-five years. I'm always looking for new ways to stimulate not only my students, but my own creative imagination.... This shoe fits, and I'm wearing it. - Gary Garrison


Author Information

Maureen Brady Johnson is a writer, a theatre and playwriting teacher, and a photographer. Her play ""Rock Paper Scissors"" was a finalist in the Actor's Theatre Louisville's Ten Minute Play Contest. She has written two books on middle school drama, and her articles on theatre have appear in EDTA's Teaching Theatre, Talking Points, the Ohio Journal of English and Language Arts, and the Rock and Roll Museum and Hall of Fame newsletter ""IMPACT.""

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