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Maher, Jan Colleen was born on February 10, 1946 in Huntington, Indiana, United States.
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Most Dangerous Women is an ideal guide to creating a participatory learning environment in your classroom or community. The play, chronicling a century of the international women's peace movement, cobbles together headlines, resolutions, speeches, poetry, and songs to educate and inspire. Supporting chapters include guidelines for producing readers' theater versions of the play in classrooms and community theater contexts as well as many thematic ideas for building on the play contents with classroom discussions and research activities. The 8.5 x 11 format, with the script itself in 14 point font, is "readers' theater ready."
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While history is full of engaging, courageous figures who do the unexpected and alter the course of events, adolescents sometimes have trouble making a connection with historical content. That can change when you use readers' theater and let students breathe life into the people, stories, and events of history. Most Dangerous Womengives you the tools to make it happen and offers an exciting way to teach about women in the peace movement. Jan Maher introduces you to readers' theater, an incredibly powerful teaching and learning tool that brings history to life. Most Dangerous Womenis the title of both the book and a play within the book that will be a source for integrating readers' theater into your teaching. Engage students in historical content by taking on the roles of women and men who took a stand during the peace movement - whether for it or against. As teens get into their parts, they will grapple with key literacy and history concepts such as point of view and context, explore their own beliefs, and take on responsibility for their learning. Best of all, you don't need any prior dramatic training to conduct readers' theater in your classroom because the book includes the complete script for Most Dangerous Women and guidelines for the many ways to perform it-reading aloud, staging it in class, or as a full-scale production. Most Dangerous Women is ideal for creating a classroom where students take on responsibility for learning as well as an exciting new way to enrich and expand your students' understanding of history.
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Fiction. One hot week in August 1954, in Heaven, Indiana, a baby is delivered twice: once in a barn by her grandfather, the second time to the tent door of a carnival fortune-teller by her grandmother Helen. The baby, Nadja, becomes part of a long tradition of well-kept secrets in the tiny town of her birth. She grows up traveling with her adoptive grandmother, the fortune-teller, learning to develop her own gifts of precognition, reading the remains of lunches and dinners to see what lies ahead in her clients' lives. Meanwhile, two other girls born in Heaven that same year are growing to maturity. Ellie Denson waits tables at Clara's Kitchen, and searches maps in her spare time, haunted by powerful urges to be Somewhere Else. Sue Ellen Sue Tipton marries her high school sweetheart and happily takes on the role of the town hairdresser, keeping herself informed on the latest in permanent waves and gossip, some of which revolves around Helen's temporary insanity and Lester's numerous affairs. In spite of the penchant Heaven's denizens have for quietly getting into each other's business, a great many secrets manage to remain hidden, stuffed into apron pockets, tucked into attic trunks, locked into desk drawers. When Nadja's Granny decides to retire in Heaven, their reappearance in town begins to tease a number of these stories out into the open, with results that really give the town something to talk about. The stories emerge against the backdrop of Indiana's larger history of secrets, ranging from pre-Civil War anti-slavery societies to post-Reconstruction Klan activities. Heaven, Indiana weaves the subtle humor and muted manners of the Hoosier State together with its sometimes foolish and sometimes devastating legacy of secrets to trace how Ellie Denson does, finally, manage to leave and Nadja does, finally, truly get to come home.
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Maher, Jan Colleen was born on February 10, 1946 in Huntington, Indiana, United States.
Bachelor, New School Social Research, New York City, 1969. Master of Arts in English Literature, Millersville University, Pennsylvania, 1988. Doctor of Philosophy, The Union Institute, 1997.
Artist in residence, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle Public Schools, since 1980. President, project director Local Access, Seattle, since 1990. Guest lecturer Seattle U., since 1991, Western Washington U., Seattle, since 1993.
(While history is full of engaging, courageous figures who...)
(Most Dangerous Women is an ideal guide to creating a part...)
(Fiction. One hot week in August 1954, in Heaven, Indian...)
Member of the board of directors New City Theater, Seattle, 1988-1991. Member of advisory board Seattle Fringe Theater Festival, 1993-1995. member National Writers Union, N.W. Playwrights Guild, Dramatists Guild.