Providing for individual differences in ability, interest, and cultural values among students, this guide contains activities, goals, objectives, and resources for teaching speech and drama to middle and junior high school students. The first section offers advice on the organization of speech and drama activities within the school curriculum, approaches to teaching the mainstreamed and the gifted and talented, effective teaching cues, and suggestions for improving school discipline. The second section of the guide focuses on speech communication and includes subsections on communicating with self and with others. Specific subject areas discussed within these subsections include public speaking, discussion, parliamentary procedure, debate, interpretive reading, choral speaking, storytelling, and mass media. The third section discusses activities in drama, including improvisation, pantomime, acting, play production, technical theatre, playwriting, dramatic criticism, and films. The guide also contains glossaries of speech and drama terms and a creative calendar designed to help teachers incorporate speech and drama into every class day. (FL)