Bookmaker Publishing
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Prior Lake, Minnesota, United States
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Ten years as a teacher of English, Spanish and Drama; three years in the Minnesota State Dept. of Education; twenty years with Britannica Films; one year with the U.S. Peace Corps; the remaining years as a free-lance writer and educational consultant. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Jamaica I worked with students with special needs.
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IDOLS
IDOLS, a fifteen minute play for high school students, was a winner of the Words Players Theatre's 6th Annual Original Short Play Contest of plays submitted from all over the U.S.A.
Set in the hallway of a high school, the idols in question are Rocky and Valerie, portrayed in glorified, glamorous poses by two pedestaled manikins or students posing statuesquely and are the center of attention for passing students. The two elites, however, maintain their haughty, aloof superiority throughout. Be
9th - 12th
Drama, Literature
Arnie, Knight of the Day
Six short stories about Arnie, a twelve-year-old boy living in a large city.He is not just a dreamer, but his imagination helps him change the city, whose enormous skyline looms high above him, into a castle, the buildings into fortresses and prisons, the streets into battlefields and treacherous rivers. Sometimes he is a knight; other times he is a World Series hero.
4th - 9th
Literature, Reading
Doing Something Nice, Inc.
DOING SOMETHING NICE, INC. is a short play that demonstrates that doing something nice is not always easy. Oh, sure, it's easy doing nice things to nice people, but what about the not-so-nice, like Witch and Rattlesnake?
Four elementary students, Bonnie, Kristine, Charlie, and Mike, have set up a business to do nice things to others. They are excited and eager about their new business until Witch comes in for a treatment. Her entrance provokes screams as the four dash for cover. After they are
3rd - 6th
Creative Writing, Drama, English Language Arts
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About the store
Experience
Ten years as a teacher of English, Spanish and Drama; three years in the Minnesota State Dept. of Education; twenty years with Britannica Films; one year with the U.S. Peace Corps; the remaining years as a free-lance writer and educational consultant. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Jamaica I worked with students with special needs.
Teaching style
I believe that learning occurs best when students are involved in creative projects with initial direction by the teacher and when they have ongoing access to the means to test and verify their work.
Awards & shining teacher moments
The Honors/Awards of which I am most proud are those I received for the plays i have written and submitted into competition. My play "Golden Wedding" was a regional winner in the Midwest Playwrights' program. "Turkeys of a Feather" was a winner at two different contests conducted in two states. My play, "Finnegan's Wake", received an honorable mention from Ohio State. My children's play book, "Doing Something Nice, Inc. and Other Short Plays," was honored by a librarian as the most popular book in the library, not an official award but something I am proud of.
My own education history
I am a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College and Mankato State University. I have also attended the University of Minnesota and the University of Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador. For the past ten years i ave worked as a state supervisor for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) program.
Additional biographical information
In addition to having completed five full-length plays, my wife and I are authors of a novel, "Soon Come," about the experiences of a middle-aged couple who chuck everything to join the Peace Corps and spend a tumultuous year in service in Jamaica.
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