Dramatics in the home

by William Byron Forbush

REFERENCES

The Dramatic Festival, by Annie A. T. Craig. (Containing plays and festivals for successive school periods.)

Folk Festivals, by Mary Master Needham. (Very practical and suggestive.)

Pageants and Pageantry, by Bates and Orr. (Helpful introduction and five pageants.)

Festivals and Plays, by Percival Chubb. (For schools and other institutions. Valuable suggestions on the use of music in festival work.)

The Celebration of the Fourth of July by Means of Pageantry, by William Chauncy Langdon.

Education through Recreation, by George E. Johnson.

[*]Education by Plays and Games, by George E. Johnson.

[*]Play in Education, by Joseph Lee.

Education through Play, by Henry S. Curtis.

[*]The Kingdom of the Child, by Heinige.

[*]The Play Way, by H. Caldwell Cock.

[*]Play Life in the First Eight Years, by Luella Palmer.

[*]The New Kindergarten Curriculum, Bulletin No. 16, United States Bureau of Education, Chapter on Games.

How to Teach, by Norsworthy and Strayer. Chapter 9, on The Meaning of Play in Education.

Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium, by Jessie H. Bancroft. (Gives graded descriptions of many active dramatic games for all ages.)

Easy Games for Little Players, by Margaret Boughton. (An English publication, showing how to turn the nursery rhymes into dramatic form. This would be excellent for a children’s party or for any little circle that chances to be meeting in the home. The suggested dialogue does not need to be memorized.)

Fundamentals of Child Study, by E. A. Kirkpatrick. Chapter 9, on Play.

The Dramatic Arts, by Caroline Crawford. Article in the Teacher’s College Record, September, 1915.

Children’s Play and Its Place in Education, by Walter Wood.

Manual of Play, by William Byron Forbush.

The Rhythms of Childhood, by Caroline Crawford.

Dramatic Games and Dances for Little Children, by Caroline Crawford.

Timely Games and Songs, by Clara Sawyer Reed.

Games for the School, Gymnasium and Home, by Jessie Bancroft.

Festivals and Pageants, by Percival Chubb.

Pageantry and Dramatics in Religious Education, by W. V. Meredith.

The Use of Dramatic Arts in Religious Education, by Mary Alice Jones. (An M. A. thesis on file at Northwestern University.)

[*] The volumes that are starred will be found particularly helpful. The volumes listed above may be secured through the publishers of this pamphlet.

THE AMERICAN HOME SERIES
NORMAN E. RICHARDSON, Editor

• The Nation’s Challenge to the Home
• How One Real Mother Lives with Her Children
• Parenthood and Heredity
• The Roots of Disposition and Character
• The First Year in a Baby’s Life
• Thumb-Sucking
• The Education of the Baby Until It Is One Year Old
• First Steps Toward Character
• The Second and Third Years
• The Education of the Child During the Second and Third Years
• The Mother as Playfellow (Years One, Two, and Three)
• The Problems of Temper
• The Problems of Fighting
• The Government of Young Children
• The Punishment of Children
• The Home Kindergarten
• The Religious Nurture of a Little Child (Years Four and Five)
• The Nervous Child
• On Truth Telling and the Problem of Children’s Lies
• The Government of Children Between Six and Twelve
• The Dramatic Instinct in Children
• Dramatics in the Home
• Table Talk in the Home
• Sunday in the Home
• A Year of Good Sundays
• The Picture-Hour in the Home
• Story-Telling in the Home
• Music in the Home
• Training in Thrift
• “What to Say” in Telling the Story of Life’s Renewal
• Sex Discipline for Boys in the Home
• Youth’s Outlook Upon Life
• Building for Womanhood
• Rhythm and Recreation

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Transcriber’s Note:

Hyphenation has been retained as it appears in the original publication.

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  Did You Ever See a [Lassie?,] Farmer
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