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    My Third Latino Monologue Book: Finding Your Voice
    My Third Latino Monologue Book: Finding Your Voice
    My Third Latino Monologue Book: Finding Your Voice
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    My Third Latino Monologue Book: Finding Your Voice

    By Marco Ramirez

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    My Third Latino Monologue Book is the third title in a groundbreaking new collection designed to support K-3 students in beginning acting classes whose first language, or, language most frequently spoken at home, is Spanish. Divided into four sections about life in general, school, brothers and sisters, and dreams, the 100 monologues range from comic to dramatic, and each speaks directly to young actors -- to their joys and dilemmas, hopes and fears. While performing these short, snappy monologues, beginning acting students discover situations and characters to identify with, and by so doing, find their own voices.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSmith and Kraus Inc
    Release dateMar 6, 2009
    ISBN9781937738440
    My Third Latino Monologue Book: Finding Your Voice
    Author

    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.

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      This is probably my third copy of this book that I've purchased since it was originally released. Donna Tartt is far and away one of my all-time favorite authors. Her writing is beautiful and captivating and this book enthralls.

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    My Third Latino Monologue Book - Marco Ramirez

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    Introduction

    Hey!

    Welcome to the brand-spankin’ new My Third Latino Monologue Book.

    This is the third in a series of several monologue and scene books written just for you, young actors who might speak more than one language, who might have a last name like Dominguez or Fernandez or Salzedo, and who might have never seen a monologue about an abuelo or abuela before.

    This is it! I’m a pretty awesome-looking book, aren’t I?

    Guapísimo.

    These monologues are an average of a minute long. Some of the monologues are longer. Some are shorter. Feel free to make cuts if you need to—that means cut some lines out if you need a shorter monologue.

    Some have some Spanish words in them, but some don’t. Don’t be afraid to challenge yourself! If there’s a word you don’t know how to pronounce perfectly, ask Mom or Dad or Abuelo or Tio Whatever, or ask a Spanish teacher at school.

    This book’s split into four chapters, and each chapter contains monologues about different subjects. Some are about pesky little brothers, some are about lizards, some are about aliens, some are about secret crushes, some are about planning quinceañeras, and some are about mean boogers at school.

    Take a look, enjoy, explore, and—most importantly?

    Be yourself.

    I’m out.

    —M. Ramirez

    Kids versus the World

    ’Cause sometimes it stinks to be a kid

    CARLOS

    Carlos wants to be tall enough to ride stuff at the fair.

    I need extra protein ’cause my papi took me to the fair. I know it doesn’t make perfect sense, but, let me explain.

    I saw all these awesome things, man, there was a Ferris wheel and there was a giant slide, but there was this one thing, this other ride called the SUPERSPINNER FLAMEFIRE. It was awesome. It was huge. They put you in this thing and they turn it on and it goes SHOOM and you fly up in the air and it slams you into the ground and then you SHOOM again and it’s superawesome.

    But they wouldn’t let me ride it ’cause I was too little, which I guess kinda makes sense ’cause if you’re too little you might slip out from under the seatbelt and go flying and when it goes SHOOM you go bye-bye, so it makes sense, I guess, but I told papi he has to take me back … ’cause next year maybe if I grow seven inches I’ll be tall enough to ride the SUPERSPINNER FLAMEFIRE.

    And I could grow seven inches. If I eat enough protein.

    LOURDES

    Lourdes has just lost her dog, so she runs around the neighborhood letting everyone know.

    LOOOST DOGG! LOOOST DOOOOOG!

    POR FAVOR! ANYONE SEEN HIM? Please!

    Listen, he’s like superskinny but he’s like supercute. He’s a mix with a whole lot of stuff. He’s got terrier and retriever and even hound dog in him, but he’s supercute. He makes cute faces like this:

    (She makes a cute face.)

    And sometimes also like this:

    (She makes another cute face.)

    Sometimes when he’s hungry he goes

    mmmmmmmm and sometimes when he’s real sleepy he farts a lot.

    LOST DOG! POR FAVOR, PLEASE! SOMEONE!! ANYONE?!

    SOL

    Sol can’t stay awake for the New Year’s eve countdown.

    No matter how hard I try. No matter how much soda I drink. No matter how loud my whole family gets … I always fall asleep on New Year’s eve.

    It’s not fair! Everyone talks about all the awesome stuff that happens, someone said something about some apples, from what I’ve seen on TV people kiss each other, everyone sings some song that I don’t know the words to … it looks SO COOL.

    And then, every year, there’s me … knocked out on my bed, or on my tia’s couch, just drooling, everyone’s counting down or whatever they do, and there’s little Sol, little me, dreaming about who-knows-what, making a fool of myself, people probably saying Aww, look how cute.

    I don’t wanna be awww, look how cute! I wanna party! I wanna rock the house! I made it up until eleven thirty-nine last year before I fell asleep!

    (She yawns.)

    What time is it? Four more hours to go?

    (She yawns again.)

    I got this. This is the year.

    PEDRO

    Pedro tries to lie to his parents about his horrible report card.

    You mean they didn’t send you anything else? They didn’t send you the other letter? I thought you got the other letter, everyone at school was talking about it. Everyone. What everyone said was that there was some other letter they sent like a week ago or like two weeks ago about how they’re changing the whole grading thing. All the grades. They’re changing them. Crazy, right? They said was that the school companies are changing grades all around the world this year, Mami. Isn’t that awesome? So As and Bs and Ds and Fs don’t mean anything anymore, so now, if you look, you can see that my D in math is really, on the new scale, on the new craaazy way of doing things, what it means is I’m D … Delightful in class and the teacher loves me. And the C in English means I’m … Coordinated … that’s what it means … What? … Yes, fine, I’ll go to my room.

    Mami? Was it even a good try? … I didn’t think so.

    MARIELA

    Mariela hates computer class.

    Computer class isn’t even that fun. Yeah, sure, it’s easier than math with Mrs. Peterson, and it’s less sweaty than P.E. but it’s so duuuuumb. They teach us to turn these computers on and off all day and it’s like sooo boring,

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