{"product_id":"shoes-on-the-highway-gary-garrison-9780325007533","title":"Shoes on the Highway: Using Visual and Audio Cues to Inspire Student Playwrights","description":"\u003cp\u003e How did that shoe end up on the side of a highway? \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e What does that graffiti mean, and who put it there? \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The answers to these simple questions, stimulated by a photograph, can make your classroom buzz with ideas, enabling students to spend time on the craft of writing instead of waiting for inspiration to strike. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Award-winning playwright and theatre educator Maureen Brady Johnson offers a jumpstart to teachers who want to take a first step toward teaching playwriting--or any form of creative writing--by offering audio and visual cues that stimulate creativity. These photographs, songs, lyrics, sounds, and overheard conversations help writers see the extraordinary in the ordinary and take risks in their writing as they compose short plays. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Go ahead, try something new. Watch your students cultivate storylines, create conflicts, and develop characters; see them invested in and engaged by the entire process from their first draft to a final, polished play. And marvel as they strengthen their writing skills in ways that more traditional writing assignments can't. Read Shoes on the Highway and witness the power of playwriting at work in your classroom. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVisit http: \/\/www.heinemann.com\/shoesonthehighway to download free photo files to use as writing prompts in your classroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gary Garrison,Maureen B. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0325007535\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780325007533\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Heinemann Educational Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.08h x 6.08w x 0.37d","brand":"Gary Garrison","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096671625471,"sku":"9780325007533","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shoes-on-the-highway-gary-garrison-9780325007533","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}