Open to Suggestion: Character Analysis through Courtroom Drama, from Speech to Print.

Funk, Terri A.

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ERIC Number: EJ368688

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1988

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Open to Suggestion: Character Analysis through Courtroom Drama, from Speech to Print.

Funk, Terri A.

Journal of Reading, v31 n7 p680-81 Apr 1988

Describes (1) an activity in which students act out a courtroom drama involving their favorite literary characters; and (2) an activity in which older remedial readers improvise short plays of dramatic conflict based on stories they have read, tape record them, and then edit the transcripts. (ARH)

Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Court Litigation, Drama, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Appreciation, Remedial Reading, Tape Recordings, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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Note: Themed Issue: Adult Literacy.