I appreciate the effort that was put into taking the story and transcribing it into a presentation full of dialogue that was very approachable and digestible by my students. Thank you for the resource!!

— John K.

Rated 5 out of 5

We had a great time reading this aloud during class. It brought out the inner actors in several of my students! This was a far more exciting way to read "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."

— Susan B.

Rated 5 out of 5

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Want to add a little fun to your study of the 14th century poem SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT? This Reader's Theater script-story adaptation designed for 10-12th graders serves as a perfect complement to the study of the original poem. Students love inhabiting the characters of the story: The naive young knight Sir Gawain, the blustering Lord Bertilak, his mischievous lady, and the mysterious Green Knight.

To implement this script-story in your classroom: First, read this 30-minute script-story to give students the basics of the overall story. Secondly, read selections from the poem to experience the original work.

This script also comes with a 2-page teacher guide featuring recall questions, teachable terms, relevant background information, connections, essential questions, pre-reading questions, story summary, and post-reading discussion questions.

Note: This selection is excerpted from THE ROAD TO CAMELOT by Zachary Hamby.

Total Pages

15 pages

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N/A

Teaching Duration

55 minutes

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CCSSRL.11-12.2

Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

CCSSRL.11-12.3

Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

CCSSRL.11-12.5

Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.

CCSSRL.11-12.10

By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 11-CCR text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 11-CCR text complexity band independently and proficiently.

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