{"id":13964,"date":"2018-05-14T07:34:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/?p=13964"},"modified":"2024-10-27T09:37:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T13:37:48","slug":"herownworstenemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/herownworstenemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Book! Her Own Worst Enemy is a Play and a Curriculum for English Learners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alphabetpublishingbooks.com\/book\/her-own-worst-enemy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Her Own Worst Enemy<\/a>\u00a0by Alice Savage is a play, but it\u2019s also a complete curriculum for English learners!<\/p>\n<p>Aida is a high-school senior who is trying to choose a university major. She wants to pursue a practical career in science, but she a real talent for acting. When she\u2019s invited to audition for a prestigious theater school, her parents want her to go for it. But Aida has to make her own choice. The play grapples with the question of what the careers of the future will be and what happens when our talents and our passions are not the same.<\/p>\n<p>As students prepare to perform the play, they will read about STEM and liberal arts careers and discuss and debate what skills are needed in the future. They\u2019ll practice pragmatics and pronunciation, do improv, learn how to\u00a0write new scenes or endings for the play. Most importantly, they\u2019ll be exposed to authentic and natural language in action. Plays can reveal insights into the way speakers use fixed expressions, intonation, and gesture to convey feelings or wants, and to navigate relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, producing a play can bring a motivating and much needed sense of fun to the classroom. Producing a play, even in readers\u2019 theater format (with script in hand) also helps students loosen up and feel more confident \u201cplaying\u201d with English and its many possible meanings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her Own Worst Enemy\u00a0by Alice Savage is a play, but it\u2019s also a complete curriculum for English learners! Aida is a high-school senior who is trying to choose a university&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2153],"tags":[233,2157,2155,2156,786,2276,1973],"class_list":["post-13964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-of-the-month","tag-clil","tag-elt-book","tag-esl-author","tag-featured-elt-book","tag-play","tag-stem","tag-teens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13964"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19302,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964\/revisions\/19302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}