RL 5.5 Halloween Drama- Scenes Fit Together to Form Structure of Drama

Did a werewolf really eat Bellamy’s homework? Mrs. Tamp has heard a number of his fanciful stories in the past explaining why he never turns in his homework. She’s never believed him before. But perhaps he has real evidence this time, like a shredded backpack. Will Bellamy’s persuasion finally achieve his goal? Will Mrs. Tamp believe this tall tale and excuse his missing homework? Or could Bellamy be finally telling the truth? Read (and experience) the drama “A Werewolf Ate My Homework” to find out!

In this 18 page Halloween Drama, your students will practice RL.5.5 and other skills (Predictions via Anticipation Guide, Vocabulary, Reader Response Questions, Summarizing Dramas, and writing to standards via CCSS Journal Prompts).

RL.5.5 This product specifically is designed for students to practice the skill to explain how a series of scenes in a drama fit together to address the CCSS RL.5.5 “Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.”

14 5th grade vocabulary words were intentionally interwoven into the drama. The words are exhausted, villain, enthralling, terminal, psychopathic, absurd, mammoth, jolting, impeccable, reinterpret, nauseating, unceasingly, excruciating, and sufficient.

What you get…

~1. Anticipation Guide, 1 page

~2. Halloween Drama, “A Werewolf Ate My Homework”, 3 Scenes, 18 pages

~3. Scene Sum It Ups GO, 1 page

~4. Vocabulary Work, 2 pages

~5. Reader Response Questions, 1 page per scene for 3 scenes

~6. RL.5.5 Graphic Organizer, 3 different forms

~7. CCSS Journal Prompts, 1 page

Prologue

At Eagle Point Elementary School, the school day is beginning. Bellamy Allem is a 5th grade student, small and slight, usually quiet and shy, with a propensity to tell fanciful stories. Mrs. Tamp is his 5th grade classroom teacher. She is a twenty year veteran teacher. Her husband is the art teacher at the school and they have four children together. Mrs. Tamp assigns homework each night Monday through Thursday, consisting mostly of reading and math. Bellamy is a straight A student, easily completing his assignments and tests with near perfect scores. But he has never turned in a single homework assignment to Mrs. Tamp. His grades reflect these missing assignments, as his reading and math percentages hover around a 90%. He’s highly interested in straight As and if he submits his homework assignments, he would have near perfect scores. But for an unknown reason, he simply never completes his homework, not even once. Instead he regularly attempts to persuade Mrs. Tamp to drop his homework 0s from his progress report. The following drama is an account of a stimulating exchange between Bellamy and Mrs. Tamp.

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