Just a Minute: Ten Short Plays & Activities for Your Classroom

by Irene N. Watts

Irene Watts creates ten enchanting plays based on folktales and legends from around the world. Each play is between three and ten minutes long and is followed by suggested related language activities for elementary classrooms. Characters are broadly drawn and plots involve powerful, universal supernatural; greed and generosity; honesty and deceit. Designed to bridge the gap between improvised drama and the scripted play, "Just a Minute" includes general strategies from breathing exercises to brainstorming ideas to imaginary language to drama as a multicultural celebration. "Just a Minute" is full of wonderful opportunities to explore easy drama strategies and gain confidence using drama in the classroom.

136 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1990

About the author

Irene N. Watts is a German-born Canadian writer and educator. She was born in Berlin in 1931 and lived there for seven years. She moved to the United Kingdom by way of Kindertransport and was educated in England and Wales. Watts earned degrees in English literature and modern history at Cardiff University.