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HI!  I have been using the same theatre textbook for almost 8 years and I am really curious if there is anything new that's been written that people know of.  

I use Glencoe Exploring Theatre for my Theatre 1 class.  Its a survey class for students getting their fine arts credit.  It is a great book but its getting a bit dated.  

I obviously, as most of us do, have many other resources for teaching theatre, but I do like having a text especially for a large class of students that are mostly not interested in performing.  

I also use Basic Drama Projects occasionally for my upper level classes. 

I've probably tried almost everything that you can buy out there, but I thought I would at least ask.  

Additionally I would like to find a new speech textbook because I teach that too. (Glencoe Speech is what I'm using)

HI!  I have been using the same theatre textbook for almost 8 years and I am really curious if there is anything new that's been written that people know of.  

I use Glencoe Exploring Theatre for my Theatre 1 class.  Its a survey class for students getting their fine arts credit.  It is a great book but its getting a bit dated.  

I obviously, as most of us do, have many other resources for teaching theatre, but I do like having a text especially for a large class of students that are mostly not interested in performing.  

I also use Basic Drama Projects occasionally for my upper level classes. 

I've probably tried almost everything that you can buy out there, but I thought I would at least ask.  

Additionally I would like to find a new speech textbook because I teach that too. (Glencoe Speech is what I'm using)

HI!  I have been using the same theatre textbook for almost 8 years and I am really curious if there is anything new that's been written that people know of.  

I use Glencoe Exploring Theatre for my Theatre 1 class.  Its a survey class for students getting their fine arts credit.  It is a great book but its getting a bit dated.  

I obviously, as most of us do, have many other resources for teaching theatre, but I do like having a text especially for a large class of students that are mostly not interested in performing.  

I also use Basic Drama Projects occasionally for my upper level classes. 

I've probably tried almost everything that you can buy out there, but I thought I would at least ask.  

Additionally I would like to find a new speech textbook because I teach that too. (Glencoe Speech is what I'm using)

I have a class set of Theatre Art in Action (National Textbook Company) which I primarily use for vocabulary with my Drama I classes.  I have a sad looking class set of an anthology called Theatre Alive which I LOVE, but it has been out of print for more than a decade.  If there is any high school appropriate theatre anthology, I'd be super interested in it.  I read lots of play with my students in Drama I and II, and I abhor using a computer screen to read...

I am hopeful I'll get some replacement books of the Theatre Alive anthology to replace the ones that have lost pages over the past 10 years!  But, I've learned not to hold my breath...

Do any of you get a budget for textbooks or any other teaching/classroom supplies?  I get nothing...hmmm...

HI!  I have been using the same theatre textbook for almost 8 years and I am really curious if there is anything new that's been written that people know of.  

I use Glencoe Exploring Theatre for my Theatre 1 class.  Its a survey class for students getting their fine arts credit.  It is a great book but its getting a bit dated.  

I obviously, as most of us do, have many other resources for teaching theatre, but I do like having a text especially for a large class of students that are mostly not interested in performing.  

I also use Basic Drama Projects occasionally for my upper level classes. 

I've probably tried almost everything that you can buy out there, but I thought I would at least ask.  

Additionally I would like to find a new speech textbook because I teach that too. (Glencoe Speech is what I'm using)