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Playwriting For Dummies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

Playwriting For Dummies

The easy way to craft, polish, and get your play on stage Getting a play written and produced is a daunting process. From crystallizing story ideas, formatting the script, understanding the roles of the director stagecraft people, to marketing and financing your project, and incorporating professional insights on writing, there are plenty of ins and outs that every aspiring playwright needs to know. But where can you turn for guidance? Playwriting For Dummies helps any writer at any stage of the process hone their craft and create the most dramatic and effective pieces. Guides you through every process of playwriting?from soliloquies, church skits, and one act plays to big Broadway musicals Advice on moving your script to the public stage Guidance on navigating loopholes If you're an aspiring playwright looking to begin the process, or have already penned a masterpiece and need trusted advice to bring it into the spotlight, Playwriting For Dummies has you covered.

Teen Reflections, Then and Now
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 35

Teen Reflections, Then and Now

Angelo feels challenged because he's not very good at most activities, except reading. Then he leaves his friends to attend a scholarship high school. Nerissa, fifteen years old and physically challenged, has her dream of returning to summer camp shattered. What do these teenagers learn as they face their challenges? Read these memoirs to find out.

Newcomers to America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 35

Newcomers to America

Angelo is journeying from Puerto Rico to the U.S. to begin a new life. What will life be like in New York City for the ten-year-old boy? Patricia thought her life in Colombia was ideal, but now her parents are taking the family to the U.S. What will eight-year old Pattie discover about her new home? Read these memoirs to find out.

Perspectives on the American Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 36

Perspectives on the American Revolution

To some, England had the right to govern the thirteen American colonies. To others, England was violating the colonists' rights. Still others took no side. Which would prevail loyalty to the king, freedom now, or peace at any price? Read these essays to find out.

Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 28

Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

Perform this script about the ideas, courage, and consequences behind one of America's most famous speeches, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death.

Sarah Emma Edmonds Union Soldier and Spy, Clara Barton, Battlefield Nurse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 35

Sarah Emma Edmonds Union Soldier and Spy, Clara Barton, Battlefield Nurse

Sarah Emma Edmonds wants to join the Union Army but can't because she's a woman. So she's going to impersonate a man-who will later impersonate a woman! Will she be successful? Nurses belong in hospitals, not on battlefields, insists Colonel Rucker of the Union Army. Clara Barton strongly disagrees. How will she change the Colonel's mind? Read these plays to find out.

Stable Boy at the Alamo, Monitor Vs. Merrimack Clash of the Ironclads
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 35

Stable Boy at the Alamo, Monitor Vs. Merrimack Clash of the Ironclads

Harold Evans, a stable boy at the Alamo, is fighting alongside other "Texians" for independence from Mexico. As the enemy attacks the fort, Harold comes face to face with General Santa Anna. What will the Mexican leader do? Union sailor Will Randall and Confederate seaman Eli Reynolds are engaged in battle. Whose ironclad, the North's or the South's, will be the victor? Read these stories to find out.

Ben Franklin, Apprentice Printer, the Education of Abigail Adams
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 28

Ben Franklin, Apprentice Printer, the Education of Abigail Adams

What will teenage Ben Franklin do to get his stories printed in his brother's newspaper? How will a chance meeting with young John Adams change Abigail's attitude toward school and learning? Read this book to find out.

The New Kid in School, Many Happy Returns
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 28

The New Kid in School, Many Happy Returns

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The Chicano Latino Literary Prize
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

The Chicano Latino Literary Prize

ñDavid is mine!î Mrs. Renteria shouts out to her neighbors gathered about the dead but handsome young man found in the dry riverbed next to their homes in a Los Angeles barrio. ñDavid?î Tiburcio asked. ñSince when is his name David? He looks to me more like a ƒî Tiburcio glanced at the manÍs face, ñƒ a Luis.î Mrs. RenteriaÍs neighbors call out a litany of names that better suit the mysterious corpse: Roberto, Antonio, Henry, Enrique, Miguel, Roy, Rafael. The very first winner of the Chicano / Latino Literary Prize in 1974, Ron AriasÍ ñThe Wetbackî uses dark humor to reflect on the appearance of a dead brown man in their midst. This landmark collection of prize-winning fiction,...