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For Teachers and Parents

• Learning Guides
• CD in Development

  Learning Guides
  (Available with Residencies and Workshops)

  General Methods and Guides

  • Developing Imagination
  • Discovering the Wonder of Nature
  • Let Literature Sing:
    (Reading Aloud with Expression)
  • Booklets of Poetry by Children
  • Young Children Creating Music

     

  Creative Writing Guides: Poetry of Diverse Cultural Traditions

  • Writing African Praise Poetry
  • Writing Chinese Landscape Poems
  • Honor the Earth: Native American Poetry
    (Writing Chant, Simile and Metaphor Poems)
  • The Reflecting Pond:
    (Writing Haiku Poems)
  • Mystical Poetry
    (From Afghanistan and the Middle East)

   

  CD in Development
  Julie is composing music to accompany creation stories and poems, written and adapted by Richard Lewis, published by the Touchstone Center.

  Visit www.touchstonecenter.net

  

For Music Specialists

• Music for Children's Choir
• Music for High School Performers

  Music for Children's Choir

  • Voices of the Hudson River, 2001
    (Based on poetry by children)
  • West Wind is Panther Whining, 1996
    (Based on an Iroquois poem)
  • From Four Directions: Songs for One World, 1992
    (Based on poetry from many lands)
  • Children's Songs: List available on request.

   

  Music for High School Performers

  • Voices of the River, 1997 (For high school chorus and band)
  • Romantic Zoology, 1989, a musical play, in collaboration with puppeteer Amy Trompetter and mime Eliot Fintushel (Masks available for rent)
  • The Pilgrimmage, 1986, a musical play, incorporating elements of Japanese theater, lyrics and choreography by Karen DeMauro