Overview
Are you a teacher who likes to promote authentic creativity from students in the classroom? If so, this book is for you! There three parts to each improvisation: Getting Ideas – a warm up to the scenario and related vocabulary; The Story – a bare bones story with Q&A to stimulate students' imaginations; The Improvisation – students develop the characters and then perform the Improvisation.Author Biography
Lou Spaventa, author of Improvisations for Creative Language Practice was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1968, Lou began his life journey as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Korea. He has lived in Korea, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Mexico, Yugoslavia, England, Barbados, Buffalo, New York, State College, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Honolulu, Hawaii. He has been a Peace Corps Volunteer, a Fulbright lecturer, a teacher trainer, a college writing professor, and a U.S. foreign service officer. He eventually settled down in Santa Barbara, California where he taught writing at UC Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara City College.
