My Second Latino Scene Book: 50 Two-Minute Scenes for Young Children

By Marco Ramirez

My Second Latino Scene Book builds on M. Ramirez's first scene book, with longer, more challenging every day situations. Like its predecessor, the scenes in this book are populated with characters familiar to kids and present conflicts and dilemma they can relate to, such as being the new kid at school, first time away at camp, worrying about how you look in braces, and cleaning a messy bedroom. At the beginning of each book, are acting guidelines to help children play the scenes effectively. Questions at the end of each scene encourage them to delve deeper into the situation and the characters, sparking interesting classroom discussion illustrations throughout for students to color. As with the monologue books, M. Ramirez weaves commonly used Spanish words and idioms into essentially English material.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Smith and Kraus Inc
• Release date: Dec 1, 2008
• ISBN: 9781937738488

Marco Ramirez

Mr. Alterman has been a guest artist and given master classes and seminars on "Monologues" and "The Business of Acting" at such diverse places as the Governor's School for the Arts in Norfolk, Virginia, the Edward Albee Theater Conference (Valdez, Alaska), Southampton College, Western Connecticut State College, Broadway Artists Alliance, The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), the Dramatists Guild, the Learning Annex, the Screen Actors Guild, the Seminar Center, in the Boston Public School System, and at many acting schools and colleges all over the country. He is a member of the Actors Studio Playwrights Unit and The Dramatists Guild.

Book preview

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THE GLUE HEAD

Guillermo’s hands are stuck to his head. Frank enters.

FRANK: What are you doing?

GUILLERMO: Nothing.

FRANK: Are your hands stuck to your head?

GUILLERMO: Maybe.

FRANK: Whaddoyoumean maybe?

GUILLERMO: I mean yes.

(FRANK laughs.)

GUILLERMO: It’s not funny.

FRANK: To you, maybe, but it’s pretty funny to me.

GUILLERMO: My brother switched the hair gel with this glue stuff. He tells me not to use it, but I sneak some sometimes when he leaves for school.

FRANK: That should teach you not to steal.

GUILLERMO: It’s not stealing. My mom buys it. If I eat cornflakes, is that stealing?

FRANK: You have a point.

GUILLERMO: Thank you.

FRANK: But you also have your hands glued to your head. So I have to say, in this case, your brother wins.

(A beat.)

FRANK: GUILLERMO: I know. You don’t need to remind me.

FRANK: What are you gonna do about it?

GUILLERMO: I think I should use this extra-strength shampoo my sister uses, but she told me not to steal that either. Who knows what she put in it.

FRANK: Could it be worse than glue?

GUILLERMO: In my family? Yes.

Questions

Why did Guillermo’s brother switch the hair gel with glue?

Have you ever been stuck in an embarrassing situation?

When Frank laughs at Guillermo, is he being a good or a bad friend?

Why do you think family members sometimes do mean things to each other?

If you were Frank, what would you do to help Guillermo?

CAR WASH

Andy is playing video games. Maria, his sister, enters holding a bucket.

MARIA: You have to help me wash the car.

ANDY: No, I don’t.

MARIA: Mom said so.

ANDY: Since when does she trust us to wash the car?

MARIA: Since today. She says it’s about time we started carrying our own weight around here, or something like that. It doesn’t matter what she said, she gave me this bucket and said we need to wash the car.

ANDY: I got one more level to beat.

MARIA: She said she wants it done now.

ANDY: When did this become so important?

MARIA: She said this house is a mess and her life is a mess, and the least we can do is make sure the car is clean. And she called you lazy, too.

ANDY: You’re lazy.

MARIA: You’re the one playing video games.

ANDY: When was the last time you did anything around the house?

MARIA: That’s not the point.

ANDY: You’re not the point.

MARIA: That doesn’t make sense. She gave me executive power.

ANDY: No, she didn’t.

MARIA: Yes, she did.

ANDY: NO!

MARIA: And that means I can do

Reviews for My Second Latino Scene Book

[Chris C Miller · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The power behind the lines in this book is undeniable. I felt like tiny hammers were pinging the words into my heart. I read some pages two, three, four...seven times because they were so eloquent, heavy and impactful.