Excerpt from: Publisher's Diary
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| August 23, 2006 | | Looking for interesting theatre sites to help theatre students learn about theatre? | | I often receive calls concerning teaching kids about drama. I constantly do research to find resources when working with elementary school children and middle school children. I have selected a number of intriguing sites to go to. Have fun! |
|  | Charles and Mary Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare | | Charmingly retold prose versions of twenty of the most popular plays. For kids 8-12. | | http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/lambtales/LAMBTALE.HTM |
| | Dramania | | "Drama-y Things to Do for Kids" with fun activities for One Person, Two People, Lots of People. A few links are broken, but these activities are delightful. For kids and their parents, 5-12. An older site, but still interesting. | | http://www.public.asu.edu/~atbrl/dramania.html |
| | Dreaming Shakespeare | | A PBS site with notes for parents and teachers to surf the site with their children. A fun story with a hip version of information about the plays; has quotes from Shakespeare. For kids 7-12. | | http://pbskids.org/lions/dreaming/ |
| | Folger Shakespeare Library | | A great site! Kept current. | | http://www.folger.edu/index.cfm |
| | Holidays: Mexico, Los Dias de los Muertos, The Days of the Dead | | Includes a skeleton puppet and instructions to create your own puppet play. For grades 3-5. | | http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/students/holidays/muertos01.htm |
| | Pioneer Drama Service Texts and Aids | | These theatre textbooks and theater aids are ideal for any individual thespian or for any drama department in need of educational resources. | | http://www.pioneerdrama.com/text-aids.asp |
| | Lynch Multimedia: Shakespeare For kids | | A BBC Education Web Guide with fun illustrations and adaptations of Macbeth, Hamlet, The Tempest, Winters Tale, Antony and Cleopatra, Merchant of Venice. A good place to start the study of Shakespeare. You?ll need Java Script for much of it. For kids 8 and older. | | http://www.lynchmultimedia.com/index2.html |
| | The Art of Taiko | | A Thinkquest site about the art of Japanese drumming. Includes: the history, making a taiko, playing a taiko. Very nicely done. For kids 8 and older. | | http://library.thinkquest.org/5997/ |
| | Careers | | Teens. After high school, then what? Choosing a career ? in Art, Dance, Music or Theater | | http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/students/careers/index.htm |
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