Introduces the concepts of music, dance, and acting, suggesting how to create a musical production through games and role-playing and describing all aspects of a show from auditions to curtain call.
Presents the complete text of this patriotic song that was written for a Broadway musical, chronicles the history of the American flag, and recounts the life of the song's composer, George M. Cohan. Includes instructions for making a flag wind sock.
Includes bibliographies, index, and appendices. Emphasizes understanding children and their needs, criteria and types of literature, and artists and authors.
Presents the context for the writing of the famous poem by the Canadian medical officer who attended injured soldiers in Flanders during the First World War.
This book traces the history of African American literature in the United States, from the literary works of Zora Neale Hurston, Frederick Douglass, and W.E.B. DuBois to the contemporary works of Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, and Alice Walker.