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Leontovich, Mary – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Describes the Viva Kids! Program, in an inner-city elementary school in Florida, in which students create and produce their own opera, engendering great enthusiasm and giving students a new sense of responsibility. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedWhite, David A.; Sprague, Cynthia – Gifted Child Today, 2002
This article discusses how a social studies teacher taught her middle school students about the components of an opera and prepared her students for putting on an opera. The development of the opera and how the opera training related to the social studies, language arts, and music curriculum are addressed. (Contains 1 reference.) (CR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum, Enrichment Activities, Gifted
Peer reviewedFerree, Angela M. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2001
Offers examples of dramatic experiences (student produced soap operas) in two classrooms in British comprehensive secondary schools. Concludes that students in other countries would find such experiences as meaningful and enjoyable as their British counterparts. Notes that the two teachers managed to be flexible, appropriating effective…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Dramatics, Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness
