Into the Story 2

Carole Miller, professor emeritus, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Faculty of Education, and Juliana Saxton, professor emeritus, Department of Theatre, both teach at the University of Victoria, Canada, and hold adjunct appointments at the University of Sydney, Australia. They are internationally recognized master teachers and recipients of Excellence in Teaching Awards. Their award-winning book, Into the Story: Language in Action Through Drama, is used internationally in both elementary and secondary classrooms as a text for pre-service teachers.Juliana Saxton is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Fine Arts/Department of Theatre, and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Victoria. She is also one of the authors of Into the Story 2.

'Into the Story 2 delineates the context in which story drama ‘fulfils mandated curriculum, stimulates learning and generates interest and engagement’(Miller and Saxton 2016: 2). Miller and Saxton accomplish this through articulating their current theoretical approach to planning story drama followed by a series of ten story drama lesson plans that can serve either as demonstrations of what this work looks like in context or as practical drama lessons that can be implemented by classroom teachers or other drama practitioners.'

• ForewordAcknowledgementsChapter One:               Towards a Humanizing CurriculumChapter Two:              And Quick as ThatBased on The Follower by Richard ThompsonChapter Three: Memories for Miss NancyBased on Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem FoxChapter Four:              New Boots for WinterBased on Those Shoes by Maribeth BoeltsChapter Five:              I’m Too Old for a Trike NowBased on Tricycle by Elisa AmadoChapter Six:                Now, Write!Based on The Composition by Antonio SkármetaChapter Seven:            The Wealth of the SeaBased on The Fish Princess by Irene WattsChapter Eight:             Mary Ellery, Traveler in SpaceBased on a text created by Norah MorganChapter Nine:              A Piece of BreadBased on Rose Blanche by Roberto InnocentiChapter Ten:               Aqua PuraBased on Beneath the Surface by Gary CrewChapter Eleven:          I Longs for Bloo SkysBased on Woolvs in the Sitee by Margaret WildRecommended ReadingBibliographyGlossary of Drama StrategiesAppendix: Making a Story Drama StructureIndex