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Cootie Shots: Theatrical Inoculations Against Bigotry for Kids, Parents and Teachers: Plays, Poems & Songs

PUBLISHER Theatre Communications Group (08/01/2000)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)
Description
For nearly two years, Fringe Benefits, a team of professional artists, teachers, parents and youth, have been working to concoct Cootie Shots, a delicious assortment of plays, songs and interactive performance pieces that promote tolerance and celebrate diversity by presenting role models of people of many different races, classes, genders, abilities, sexual orientations, religions, shapes and sizes. In all, Cootie Shots is comprised of about 50 2-15 minute educational plays for Elementary School audiences.

The lessons covered are:

o Love is what makes a family
o Children should feel free to play with whatever toys appeal to them, study whatever subjects interest them and choose career paths unhindered by gender stereotypes
o Name-calling is never acceptable
o Putting people down because how they look and whom they love is neither kind nor fair.

The cast of characters includes:

Rapunzel
Rosa Parks
Cesar Chavez
Harvey Milk
Emily Dickinson
Alexander the Great
The Statue of Liberty
and more

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Product Format
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781559361842
ISBN-10: 1559361840
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
More Product Details
Page Count: 144
Carton Quantity: 32
Product Dimensions: 7.00 x 0.46 x 9.98 inches
Weight: 1.10 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Price on Product, Table of Contents, Ikids, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Education | Teaching - Subjects - Arts & Humanities
Education | American - General
Education | Anthologies (multiple authors)
Grade Level: 8th Grade - 12th Grade
Dewey Decimal: 812.608
Library of Congress Control Number: 00037758
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Fringe Benefits, a team of professional artists, teachers, parents, and youth, present this assortment of plays, songs, and interactive performance pieces that promote tolerance and celebrate diversity. "Cootie Shots" includes more than two dozen five-20 minute educational plays for elementary school audiences.
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For nearly two years, Fringe Benefits, a team of professional artists, teachers, parents and youth, have been working to concoct Cootie Shots, a delicious assortment of plays, songs and interactive performance pieces that promote tolerance and celebrate diversity by presenting role models of people of many different races, classes, genders, abilities, sexual orientations, religions, shapes and sizes. In all, Cootie Shots is comprised of about 50 2-15 minute educational plays for Elementary School audiences.

The lessons covered are:

o Love is what makes a family
o Children should feel free to play with whatever toys appeal to them, study whatever subjects interest them and choose career paths unhindered by gender stereotypes
o Name-calling is never acceptable
o Putting people down because how they look and whom they love is neither kind nor fair.

The cast of characters includes:

Rapunzel
Rosa Parks
Cesar Chavez
Harvey Milk
Emily Dickinson
Alexander the Great
The Statue of Liberty
and more

Show More
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