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I use this one too and am really fond of the plays on it ------------------------------ Lisa Coy New York NY ------------------------------

Hi, Marcie, the advice on this thread already looks wonderful. I would like to just note something about the language. We are often taught (as I was too) that the talent of the students have to be expended, therefore they have to be used and even when we don't use this language in a classroom, the students ...

What a fascinating thread! Following this. Thanks. ------------------------------ Lisa Coy New York NY ------------------------------

These are some of the great books that i often go back to for specific reasons as specified: 1. The Little Prince: by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 2. The Improv games guidebook by Viola Spolins ( i enjoy the academic one more than the game book) 3. Viewpoints by Anne Bogart especially for ensemble and ...

I love starting with sociometry and the focus game called zip zap zop.  With larger groups, it is also good to pair them up and ask them to play the museum tour game where one of them is taking the other on a tour around the room but they have to give unusual history to normal objects. This exercise ...

Some of the methods that I have recently started using are as follows: 1. To warm up physically with some newer pop songs that would make them less closed up 2. I give them a random topic and ask them to talk to each other about it. I choose safe subjects. But these conversations make them real and ...