Books published by publisher Meriwether Publishing

Bringing creative drama activities into the classroom reaches across all disciplines, creating opportunities for hands-on, experiential learning. Middle school students especially have lots of energy and are learning to express their individuality. They need to try out new ideas, explore, and interact. The many exercises in this book can help any teacher, even one with no acting experience, create a safe zone in their classroom where students can take risks, make mistakes and learn from them, building both confidence and cooperation, as well as speaking and listening skills. Games are organized into several categories: Body Exercises, Voice Exercises, Getting to Know Each Other, Improvisation, Public Speaking, Poetry for Performance, and Plays and Scenes. A glossary of drama terms at the back of the book helps even the most beginning teacher add drama as a powerful tool to his or her bag of tricks.

Also available in ebook at Mercerpublishing.com ______"Mercer Publishing has the only available practice materials in the format of the CogAT* exam." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Practice test 1 of 2. Level B is usually given to children in third grade**. Level B is the Multilevel Ed. format of the CogAT exam, in which the children read and answer the test questions themselves. This book contains a single full-length practice test that contains nine subtests in the three test areas found on the CogAT exam: VERBAL Verbal Classification 20 questions Sentence Completion 20 questions Verbal Analogies 25 questions QUANTITATIVE Quantitative Relations 25 questions Number Series 20 questions Equation Building 15 questions NONVERBAL Figure Classification 25 questions Figure Analogies 25 questions Figure Analysis 15 questions Practice Test for the CogAT* Multilevel Edition is a full length practice test with answer key. The objec

This textbook is designed to introduce students to individual forensic events, giving suggestions and guidelines for their preparation. Seven chapters describe the structure and winning strategies for each forensics event: original oratory, extemporaneous speaking and different types of oral interpretation. Beginning forensics students will benefit greatly from this text because it provides a definition and description of each event, the basic rules, and hints for preparation, practice, and performance. The book can also be a valuable resource for advanced students since it provides suggestions for winning in each event and checklists that will be useful for preparing for competition. This versatile book is written so that it can be used both for instruction, providing everything you need to know to compete in any event, and as a resource, with its easy to follow layout that you can refer to as you prepare for competition. Additional chapters provide information about Student Congress and about national and private speech tournaments.

When thirteen year old mergril, Donna, finds herself at Demeter's Siren School, she isn't certain where she belongs. Her roommate, Mel, and her godmother, Tash, try to help her to succeed in becoming one of them, but Donna can't help feeling she wasn't meant for the Siren life. Just when Donna feels like she has nowhere else to turn, she'll need some advice from her mother, but it will come in an unexpected way.Will Donna find out who she really is?Will she fight for what she really wants? Will she end up where she belongs?Find out in this Mergirl's Tale about finding one's self.

Angela Rock gets to the heart of advanced beach volleyball tactics. Because she was an Olympic indoor player first, she understands how to transition from indoor to beach. She explains how the games are different strategically and which highly honed indoor tactics served her well on the beach—and which did not. As both an amateur and professional player with decades of experience, Rock distills her hard-won knowledge of the game. She shares her “secrets” and those of other champion players, revealing information only the best would know. Although this is a book for anyone who wants to play beach volleyball, it is a goldmine for aspiring elite players. Her tactics are clearly explained and illustrated with real examples, including warming up outside the courts, serving to score, setting skills and responsibilities, offensive tactics, effective blocking, defensive variations, and strategic options. Beach volleyball has come a long way in the last 25 years, and Angela Rock offers an insider’s view into the sport unlike any we’ve seen before. Praise “Angela discusses different philosophies, approaches, and parts of the game that only someone with her playing and coaching experience can do. Very few people worldwide have the credibility and experience to coach/play at the highest level like Angela does. Beach volleyball takes years to understand, but with this book, you get a crash course in everything, and the learning curve is accelerated!” —Holly McPeak, three-time Olympian beach volleyball player

Mercer Publishing has the only available practice materials in the format of the CogAT* exam. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most of the questions in this book are at the 2nd to 3rd grade level of difficulty. Please see our grade-specific books for additional grade options. The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT*), published by Riverside Publishing, Multilevel Edition tests are commonly given to 3rd grade students and above (and sometimes students in 2nd grade), although it depends on what test your school/program provides and the test level that they use for your grade level. The A - H level tests expect that the child is able to read and answer the test questions themselves. This practice test contains nine subtests in the three test areas found on the CogAT: VERBAL Verbal Classification 20 questions Sentence Completion 20 questions Verbal Analogies 25 questions QUANTITATIVE Quantitative Relations 25 questions Number Series 20

Let's get started on the 44-day Activate Your Abundance program right away. Our program consists of evening meditations, writing our goals and blessings and reading daily lessons. The main point is to start lifting our consciousness and self-worth now to allow a lifted mindset. If this is not Divine timing for your program, simply enjoy the book and participate in the program when you are ready.

Also available in ebook at Mercerpublishing.com ------"Mercer Publishing has the only available practice materials in the format of the CogAT* exam." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Practice test 2 of 2. Level C is usually given to children in fourth grade**. Level C is the Multilevel Ed. format of the CogAT exam, in which the children read and answer the test questions themselves. This book contains a single full-length practice test that contains nine subtests in the three test areas found on the CogAT exam: VERBAL Verbal Classification 20 questions Sentence Completion 20 questions Verbal Analogies 25 questions QUANTITATIVE Quantitative Relations 25 questions Number Series 20 questions Equation Building 15 questions NONVERBAL Figure Classification 25 questions Figure Analogies 25 questions Figure Analysis 15 questions Practice Test for the CogAT* Multilevel Edition is a full length practice test with answer key. The object of this practice test is to familiarize your child with sample questions they will face on test day, how the tests are formatted, the symbols used and the number of questions in in each test area. However, since this practice test has not been standardized with Riverside Publishing and the actual CogAT* test, a valid CogAT* test score cannot be concluded from their results on this practice test. * CogAT is a registered trademark of Houghton Mifflin Company. The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) is owned by Houghton Mifflin Company and published by Riverside Publishing, a Houghton Mifflin Company. Neither Houghton Mifflin Company nor Riverside Publishing was involved in the production of, nor endorses, these practice tests. ** Grade level is based on the exam publisher's recommendation for testing gifted students. Please check with your school as we cannot guarantee which level will be given by your school.

The best scenes from leading plays by the most famous contemporary playwrights. The scenes offer a wide spectrum of performance styles for vocal and physical interpretation. Playwrights include: Beckett, Pinter, Mamet, Durang, Foote, Wasserstein, Vogel, McLure, Innaurato, Meyers, Shue, Medoff and Steve Martin as well as "new voice" contemporary playwrights Bruce Graham, John Wooten, Ludmilla Bollow, Rich Orloff and Jack Heifner. Scenes are divided into several age groups. Each is preceded by performance hints and exercises. Also included are monologs for audition use. Designed to help beginning and experienced actors to expand their individual styles and techniques.

An anthology of selected plays for young audiences,Second edition, revised. Many consider Max Bush to be the fountainhead of the renaissance in playwriting for young audiences. His sensitivity to current themes and the modern idiom infuses a contemporary appeal into all of his works. His poetic and muscular style of writing pushes aside "the sugary breakfast cereal" approach to children's theatre. His many uses of modern drama techniques serve to grab and hold the attention of young audiences. The ten full-length plays in this book are adaptations of classics, heroic fantasy adventures and drama dealing with social and psychological issues for youngsters. Plays include: Ghost of the River House; Hansel and Gretel, the Little Brother and the Little Sister; The Emerald Circle; Puss in Boots; 13 Bells of Boglewood; The Crystal; The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers; Rockway Cafe; Rapunzel; Voyage of the Dragonfly.

Here's another Laurie Allen comedy collection treasure! The 31 sketches range in length from two to four minutes and have mixed casts of two to seven people. Teens love these real-life scenarios because they can portray characters like themselves and their peers. Sample titles from this collection include: "Food Fight," "Picture Day," "Texas-Size Zit," "Save the Frogs," and "Dreadful Dancing." All situations are believable and easy for both the timid and the eager actors to perform. These scenes are ideal for classroom practice or for contest use.