Todd Farley Livres

The book delves into the troubling realities of the standardized test industry, revealing how decisions affecting students are often made without proper consideration of their actual answers. It highlights the actions of state education officials who manipulate scoring methods and the profit-driven motives of large testing companies. While it presents absurd anecdotes, such as grading students on food descriptions, the serious implications of standardized testing in the wake of "No Child Left Behind" underscore the urgent need for reform in education.

These international mime artists, trained in Paris by Marcel Marceau, have taught mime workshops around the world. This video and workbook program presents a comprehensive series of mime exercises for student practice and review. Each technique is explained step-by-step in the illustrated book and shown clearly and slowly on the video. Some techniques include: Body Positioning: feet and hand isolations, forward, backward, side inclinations and rotation: Communicating with the Body: the chest, feet, head, hands, pelvis, waist: The Living Character: breath, transfer of weight, rhythm, the stop, the seed, the robot. Also includes the techniques of creating an illusion, object identification and gestural coloration and decoloration. An excellent resource for learning mime technique.

On the night when rites are held to avert witchcraft, three bodies are found in bizarre circumstances, and for the rulers of Sparta, the timing is terrible.