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High school creative writing scripts
Melodrama Lesson Plan with Drama Script - HEROES AND VILLAINS
MELODRAMA Lesson Plan with drama script + Hero, Villain, Sidekick and Victim Character Cards. This is an introduction to melodrama lesson (double lesson) where students perform a melodrama script but also a fun drama lesson for advanced students. NO PREP REQUIRED - the whole lesson resources are included: INCLUDES:- 102 Drama Cards to cut out and use- In class handout- Example melodrama scriptYOU WILL LOVE THIS RESOURCE! Just print, laminate (optional) and cut out a set of versatile improvisatio
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6th - 12th
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Write Your Own 1 Act Script - Drama Assessment *Google Drive* w/ Examples/Rubric
This assignment is a great resource to extend your students' involvement with drama! Students will create their own play script to show their understanding of drama structure and conventions. This assignment will also help students develop their creative writing skills! Students will create their own characters, outline a plot, and write a one act script for their original play. I used this as a final assessment for a drama unit. Items included in this product (all are editable Google Docs in a
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7th - 12th
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10 Minute Plays - A playwriting Unit
This playwriting unit will help you put together a 10 minute play writing project. This is great for Drama classes, English classes or Creative Writing electives. It provides a simple format so you can move around the pieces to suit your specific class. Exercises are provided for specific element focus, such as character analysis and development, as well as for different stages such as brainstorming free writes. There is also information about using table reads and staged readings as part of
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6th - 12th
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Writing a Group Play: Collaborative Creative Writing
Lesson Plan and Rationale
Rationale and Overview
One of the units that I do in my creative writing class is to have my students create a ten-minute play. I do this prior to my short story unit so that students will have had practice developing characters, working through a plot, writing dialogue, and focusing action in a narrative structure. Prior to their writing their own play, I have them write a play in groups of two or three to get them used to the process and structure of playwriting. Be
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7th - 12th
Create a Podcast BUNDLE - Script, Audio Template, Example Ready to Go!
Mix up your classroom practice away from boring writing tasks with this fun, easily adaptable podcast activity!Designed for upper primary or secondary students, this versatile activity can be seamlessly adapted to various subjects. If you are looking to launch a podcast club - take a look at my PODCAST CLUB BUNDLE!Included in the easily accessible zip download are the following resources:A Student Script template to assist students in structuring their podcast content effectively.An exemplary St
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6th - 9th
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Rhetorical Appeals and Persuasion - Ethos, Pathos, Logos - Commercial Project
If you are looking to assess your student's knowledge of rhetorical analysis and appeals, but don't want to assign another quiz or essay, then you HAVE to try this fun advertising commercial project in your classroom. Students will use their knowledge of persuasion and ethos, pathos, and logos to create their very own radio or TV advertisements! This project- based approach to learning will keep them engaged, and help them retain key rhetorical strategies. Students will LOVE using their creativi
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7th - 10th
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Broadcasting Scripts and Scales
I started teaching broadcasting in the 2017-18 school year. I had to design the newscast from scratch. This document contains all of the scripts that I've designed and the scales that I use to grade. Though these scripts work for my broadcasting class, you may also find them useful if your students are storytelling and designing videos. This product includes fifteen different scripts, their corresponding scales, and descriptions of each of the videos.
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5th - 12th
Creating Drama Stage Directions and Scripts: Teaching Plans and Activities
This handout can be used with creative writing, English or drama students when the assignment is to write a play. It offers 1. an outline of basic stage direction elements2. an outline for writing scripts3. Write Now!- two dozen ideas for comedic/dramatic plays.Creating drama is a natural for young people. These activities offer them the chance to combine their realities with the fiction that they design.As always, this activity- PDF version- may be downloaded and printed for classroom use. A
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6th - 12th
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Best-Seller Bundle: Top 10 for Drama Teachers
A Drama bundle loaded with my Top 10 current Best Sellers, which all come with detailed powerpoints and supporting resources - they are ready to go, with no planning needed:Silent MoviesDarkwood Manor (Haunted House)Characterization and ImprovisationMatildaCommedia D’el ArteGeorge’s Marvellous MedicineGreek TheatreA Christmas Carol (adapted script)Little Red Riding Hood (short script)Christmas monologues
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2nd - 12th
Mommy, Do You Hear That? Scary Reader's Theatre/Radio Play -Creative Writing
Mommy, Do You Hear That? Summary:One evening, Ellen and her daughter Alice are returning home from their visit to Aunt Sally and Uncle Albert's house. On the way home, Alice hears sounds all around her in the dark. Ellen calms young Alice's mind by telling her their is a logical explanation for all the sounds she is hearing at that time of the night. The one sound that Ellen does not respond to is the sound of heavy footsteps. Alice continually asks who or what could be making them, while Ellen
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
60 Shakespeare Scenes for Teens
60 Shakespeare Scenes for Teens
edited by Lisa Bansavage, L.E. McCullough & Jill K. Swanson
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You can’t beat a Shakespeare scene for tuning up your acting chops.
The 60 scenes in this 322-page collection offer a methodic skeleton key by which young actors may unlock a wide-ranging storehouse of emotion, technique and interpretive skills.
Scenes from 27 Shakespeare plays are represented, offering a cross-section of comedy, tr
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6th - 12th
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Reader's Theater/ Improv One Page Scripts for Middle & High School Drama
This pack comes with 5 one page UNFINISHED scripts. Students work together to finish the scene and then share it with the class. Silly, Fun, Low Stakes, Kids practice writing, memorizing and acting out short scenes. The scripts include 12 characters. However, it is okay if more than one group gets the same script since they get to finish it with their own ideas!These are free to perform, film and post on social media. NO ROYALTIES or attribution is required.Check out the preview for more inf
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6th - 12th
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Romeo & Juliet Balcony Scene Rewrite
This creative writing activity will allow your students to have some fun creating a parody of the famous Act II, Scene ii of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. Students choose their own setting and translate the language to fit their time period. An example is attached. An option is to have students act out their scenes for extra credit.
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8th - 12th
Halloween Reader's Theater One Page Scripts for Middle & High Drama
Witches with costume issues, Vampire party planning, Zombies crashing a school dance, and more. This pack comes with 5 one page UNFINISHED scripts. Students work together to finish the scene and then share it with the class. Silly, Fun, and Low Stakes, kids practice writing, memorizing and acting out short scenes. The scripts include 17 characters. However, it is okay if more than one group gets the same script since they get to finish it with their own ideas!Perfect for Halloween Week!These
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6th - 12th
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SHOUTBACK! READERS' THEATER, Bundle 6, scripts for High School casts
What’s ShoutBack! Theater? ShoutBack! – a one-act play, 10 to 15 minutes, usually humorous, often with rhyming lines. Small casts – 5 to 8 actors – allow several teams to perform in separate classrooms, at the same time. A ShoutBack! works much like call-and-respond gospel songs, without the singing. During the performance, emcee invites audience to ShoutBack! a line or two. Here’s Our Cast: Narrator – appears in some ShoutBack! ‘s. Actors – usually 3 to 5; mime with their dialog. Actors
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9th - 12th
Writing Process & Fundamentals Unit-BUNDLED-Differentiated, Common Core
This 5-week long Writing Fundamentals unit teaches students compound sentences, the power paragraph, and the five paragraph essay. It also teaches students how to workshop one another's pieces to help each other succeed.
**This unit includes three other products from my site:
--Differentiated compound sentences
--Writing the Power Paragraph
--Writing the Five Paragraph Essay (complete with the Writer's Workshop!)
By purchasing this bundled unit, you save over 20% than if you purchased the less
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5th - 11th
Gothic Literature Short Film Activity
Mesh Creative Writing with characteristics of Gothic Literature to engage students in the genre while also practicing elements of irony, editing, and MLA conventions. Students will create a script using characteristics of gothic lit and film a short film video. This works really well as a performance task at the end of your unit, or as a fun engaging activity at the beginning to get students excited about gothics!
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6th - 12th
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PSA Script Writing Lesson - SDAIE Approved
This is the script writing lesson for my Award Winning PSA Unit. This lesson has helped my students garner recognition from all over the world. In fact, in December of 2013 my students created a PSA entitled, "Dear Sea World", which played internationally on CNN and inspired CA State Legislation. My students have also won or placed in many video contests in San Diego and the Los Angeles area.
I used this lesson for my SDAIE Certification course at UC Riverside and the Instructor is currently
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
Poetry Writing - Choral Reading, Oral Interpretation, Drama Creative Writing Sub
Poetry Writing! Performance Poems are FUN! Performance Poems will get students out of their seats and speaking before the class. Performance poems will engage all students. Performance Poems may include groups of two to six students.Students will watch youtube examples and will participate in reading poems written in my English 10 class from a powerpoint presentation. The poems are color coded so that each speaker in the presentation knows what lines to read alone and what lines to read together
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6th - 12th
Christmas Reader's Theater One Page Scripts for Middle & High Drama
From Christmas to New Years... This pack comes with 5 one page UNFINISHED scripts. Students work together to finish the scene and then share it with the class. Silly, Fun, and Low Stakes, kids practice writing, memorizing and acting out short scenes. The scripts include 18 characters. However, it is okay if more than one group gets the same script since they get to finish it with their own ideas!Perfect for December!These are free to perform, film and post on social media. NO ROYALTIES or a
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6th - 12th
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Readers theater package - King Lear
The King Lear package contains a 20 page readers theater script of all 5 acts of Shakespeare’s King Lear as well as a 33 slide graphics intensive Power Point. Writing prompts, graphic organizers and art work based on the play offer visuals to help activate background knowledge, learn new material and assist students in retaining what they learn. (.PDF and Power Point are included in Zip folder as well as directions for using reader's theater in the classroom)Part of the Shakespeare readers the
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8th - 12th
Also included in: Bundle: Shakespeare's Lear
Fever 1793 Readers theater, writing project, and classroom activity.
Enjoy a ready made readers theater for 16 or more students to use with the novel Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. Following the readers theater engage your students in a thought provoking ethics writing project. The project is designed for small groups, but could easily be adapted for individual use. A bonus classroom activity is included to spark a lively debate.
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4th - 9th
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R.U.R: A Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Human Condition
Students will recognize R.U.R.’s contribution of the word “robot” to English and “to all the languages in which science fiction is written”
Students will connect the themes (i.e. Artificial Intelligences (AIs) intent on destroying their creators) of Karl Čapek’s R.U.R. with early science/speculative fiction (i.e. Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus) as well as modern sci-fi works (i.e. “The Machines” from The Matrix (1999))
Following rubric requirements, students will employ previously lea
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10th - 12th
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Nursery Rhymes on Trial & Mother Goose Academy (Group Scene Templates for Drama)
Order in the court! What would happen if Jack sued Jill, or Humpty Dumpty sued all the King's Men? And what happened before and after the events of a nursery rhyme? Find out by using these improvisation/drama and writing templates for 2 scene types: "Nursery Rhymes on Trial" and "Mother Goose Academy". This packet includes the following Nursery Rhyme themed activities to use in your drama and reading classes:Instructions of all the activities (you can read through it in the above preview packet)
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3rd - 12th
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