I second the Perfection books mentioned. Perfection sent me their speech and debate book, I don't teach it but I perused the book and thought it was really rather good.
I think 'The Essential Theatre' is a great text, with a great flow, though a little more academic. It would be a great complement to 'Basic Theatre Projects,' though I understand you probably only want one text for a class set.
For technical theatre aspects, depending on how deep you're going, either one of those books is a great starting point. For further study, or if you have students who are interested, it might be grand to have a few copies of 'Technical Theatre for Non-Technical People'. 'Stagecraft Fundamentals' is also a great high school text, written at a high school level with much up-to-date information.
And then collect as many different scripts as you can for scene work.
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Phillip Goodchild
Theatre Arts Instructor/Assistant Department Head of English
Ruskin FL
Original Message:
Sent: 02-09-2016 09:17
From: Allison Martell
Subject: Textbooks
I'm a fan of the Drama Projects book from Perfection Learning (Basic Drama Projects | Speech Theatre Journalism Debate). I got the teacher's edition first, since my school didn't have a textbook budget for me, but I was able to add that in for this year. There's also a binder that goes with it that has a bunch of the worksheets it mentions, but I don't have that yet.
For my upper level acting and tech classes, I only use scripts, having found/made a lot of powerpoints to go over the different concepts.
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Allison MB
Theatre Teacher / Director
Nashoba HS