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Adult education Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa literature circles
A Christmas Carol; A Readers' Theater Adaptation
Included in A Christmas Carol:-complete script-pre-reading activities-vocabulary study-discussion questions-suggestions for projectsThis reader's theater adaptation is suitable for grades 7- adult. While adhering to the plot of the original work, this adaptation uses more modern language, so that it can be more easily understood by today's students. It can be used with small groups or entire classrooms in both regular and special education. Reading the play aloud, or even acting it out will m
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Christmas Chemistry Color by Number - by Valence Electrons
Solve each chemical element for the number of valence electrons indicated by its atomic mass and use that answer to determine the color of each section. For example hydrogen has 1 valence electron so wherever you see "H" use the number color 1 which is yellow.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
The Gift of the Magi Lesson Plans and Activities
O. Henry's classic Christmas story "The Gift of the Magi" is a great read for the holiday season. I've read it successfully with high school, university, and advanced ESL/EFL students. And now I've put together the most comprehensive collection of downloadable and printable resources to teach "The Gift of the Magi" this holiday season! This 105-page collection of 15 activities, worksheets, games and assessments that I've written and honed over the years cover every aspect of the story: vocabula
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Greatest Gift Reader's Theater Script -Questions -Philip Van Doren Stern
George PrattGive me just one good reason why I should be alive. I’m sick of everything! I’m stuck here in this mud hole for life, doing the same full work day after day. Other people are leading exciting lives, but I…well, I’m just a small-town bank clerk. I never did anything really useful or interesting, and it looks as if I never will. I might just as well be dead. Sometimes I wish I were. In fact, I wish I had never been born!The StrangerWhy, that’s wonderful! You have solved everything. You
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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It's Christmas, Charlie Brown! Reader's Theatre Script -Rubric & Questions
Included in the It's Christmas, Charlie Brown! Reader's Theatre Unit:17 page script3 major characters + the narrator6 supporting characters45 metacognitive questionsStudent Reader's Theatre Evaluations based on 4 levels and 5 criteria.Student Success CriteriaStudent Friendly GoalsReader's Theatre ChecklistIt's Christmas, Charlie Brown! Synopsis:Snoopy’s dog-house blinks on and off with electric lights.Sally thinks only about the presents she will get.Lucy likes aluminum trees.Is this Christmas?
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5th - 10th, Adult Education
A Christmas Carol Reader's Theatre Script -Charles Dickens Original -John Leech
Ebenezer ScroogeSpirit…Tell me if Tiny Tim will live. The Ghost of Christmas PresentI see a vacant seat in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die. Ebenezer ScroogeNo, no. Oh, no, kind Spirit! Say he will be spared. The Ghost of Christmas PresentIf these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Home Alone: Reader's Theatre/Radio Play -Christmas
Summary:When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother, Kate McCallister, makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true, but his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men named Harry and Marv, who call themselves the Wet Bandits, plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Ralphie's Christmas Story Reader's Theatre Script -With Questions
Mom ParkerWhat would you like for Christmas, Ralphie? Jean ShepherdI knew the moment called for nuance and nonchalance. But sometimes you just…Ralphie speaks quickly: Ralphie ParkerI want an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200 shot Range Model air rifle with a compass in the stock and a… Jean ShepherdOn, no! My tongue short-circuited my brain. I was speaking faster than I was thinking. I was dead. Even before she opened her mouth, I knew what my mother was going to say to me. Mom ParkerRalphie
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6th - 11th, Adult Education
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Twas the Night Before Christmas Reader's Theater Vocabulary
Increase fluency with this classic Christmas poem! This Reader's Theater includes the original language and is broken down into parts of 5-30 or more students. Includes:Space to record students assigned to each of the 5 groups; helpful for you and your students!Entire poem broken down into parts; primarily groups, with some girl/boy/all lines; Intended for flow of words (fluency) and fun dashes of exciting one liners!Key vocabulary covers 2 pages - words AND definitions! I learned quite a b
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
A Christmas Carol Reader's Theater Script with Questions -Charles Dickens
Ebenezer ScroogeSpirit! Something informs me that our parting moment is at hand. Tiny Tim has…died. But please…tell me…who was the man we saw lying in that bed? A thick fog begins to surround Scrooge and the spirit, and they are transported to a cemetery. It is a worthy place, indeed to learn the wretched dead man’s name. The spirit points to a tombstone in the distance. Scrooge squints at it and then looks back at the spirit. Ebenezer ScroogeBefore I draw nearer to the gravestone at which you p
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Markheim Reader's Theatre Script -Robert Louis Stevenson -Questions -Rubric
MarkheimYou know me? The visitor smiled. VisitorYou have long been a favourite of mine, and I have long observed and often sought to help you. MarkheimWhat are you? The devil? VisitorWhat I may be, cannot affect the service I propose to render you. MarkheimIt can, it does! Be helped by you? No, never; not by you! You do not know me yet; thank God, you do not know me! VisitorI know you… Replied the visitant, with a sort of kind severity or rather firmness. Visitor…I know you to the soul.Included
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Legend of the Poinsettia Reader's Theater Script x2 and Questions
Senora GomezOh, Lucida, the blanket is so tangled. There is no time for me to fix it, because tomorrow is Christmas Eve. Lucida started to cry. LucidaIt is my fault that the blanket is ruined. Now my family will not have a gift to place at the manger of the Baby Jesus. Senora GomezDon’t worry, Lucida. We will all go to the procession together. Lucida did not say anything, but in her heart she felt that she had ruined Christmas.*********************************************************************
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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Sierra's Kwanzaa Reader's Theatre Script
Included in Sierra's Kwanzaa Reader's Theatre Unit:13 page script8 characters + the narrator1 page "What is Kwanzaa?"Sierra's Kwanzaa synopsis:It is December 26 and Sierra has invited her friends over to play. A snowstorm has begun, and Aunt Teresa makes it in from the airport. She is happy to see her family and friends. She begins to decorate for Kwanzaa. While doing so she acknowledges all of the achievements of her family members. Sierra is young and has not won any contests or competitions
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4th - 6th, Adult Education
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It's a Wonderful Life Reader's Theater Script -Questions
George BaileyYou mean, you actually heard my prayer up there? ClarenceYours and over a dozen others. You would be surprised how many people are concerned about you. George BaileyNot after they find out that I’ve ruined their lives. ClarenceYou haven’t ruined their lives, George. Besides, it wasn’t your fault. George BaileyI’m the president of the company. I’m the one to be held accountable. Ask Mr. Potter. He will tell you. ClarenceAnd you think killing yourself would make everyone feel hap
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Classic Stories for Christmas Time
This is a reader containing 8 full-text unabridged stories about Christmas.
It includes classics like A Visit from St. Nick ('Twas the Night Before Christmas) which established our modern ideas about Santa Claus coming down the chimney, filling stockings, giving presents, and flying off with flying reindeer.
I've also included The Gift of the Magi, a story of a poor husband and wife who each sacrifice their greatest treasure to buy a gift for the other, as well as Charles' Dickens' A Christm
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King Reader's Theater Script - E. T. A. Hoffmann
Fred always kept shoving in the biggest and hardest nuts into the nutcracker’s mouth; but all of a sudden there was a crack, crick, then three teeth fell out of the Nutcracker’s mouth, and his under-jaw went loose and wobbly. MaryOh, my poor dear Nutcracker! Mary, snatched him out of Fred’s hands.FredWhat a silly, dumb fellow! He is set up to be a nutcracker, and yet he doesn’t have a good set of teeth! He doesn’t seem to be very first-rate at his business. Hand him over, Mary! He shall go on cr
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Who is the Real Santa Claus? Reader's Theatre Script -With Questions
BethanyYou also look sad. What’s wrong, Santa? Santa ClausThe grown-ups don’t seem to know who I am, and they don’t seem to care. BethanyThat’s because they have stopped believing in you, but the children still love you.Santa ClausNot all children like me. BethanyOnly the bad ones, but they probably never visit or write to you.Included in the Who is the Real Santa Claus? Reader's Theatre Unit:16 page script13 characters + The Narrator31 analytical questions that range from easy to challengingWh
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5th - 10th, Adult Education
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Play Script Bundle - 5 x 1 hour Original Playscripts (Performance Quality)
This bundle brings our five original play scripts together in one place. Each play lasts for one hour when performed to an audience.Each play has a vast array of characters for the children to choose from and are ideal for Christmas and end of year festivals.This bundle includes:Fairytale (What would happen if four witches from four different tales met?)Fairytale 2 - The Witches Return (What would happen if the wolves from different tales made a bid to take Fairytale Land from the Witches?)Time
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1st - 6th, Adult Education, Staff
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Home Alone: Reader's Theatre/Radio Play Preview Chapter Marley and Kevin
Summary:When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother, Kate McCallister, makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true, but his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men named Harry and Marv, who call themselves the Wet Bandits, plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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A Kidnapped Santa Claus Reader's Theater Script -Questions -L. Frank Baum
The following day the Daemon of Envy visited Santa Claus. Envious DaemonThe toy shops are full of playthings quite as pretty as those you are making. What a shame it is that they should interfere with your business! They make toys with machines much quicker than you can make them by hand; and they sell them for money, while you get nothing at all for your work. Santa Claus refused to be envious of the toy shops. Santa ClausI can supply the little ones only once a year—on Christmas Eve, because
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Charlie Brown Christmas Stories X2 Reader's Theatre Slide-Show
Included in the Charlie Brown Christmas Stories Reader's Theatre Story Book Unit:2 Stories with text and pictures.1. Charlie Brown's Stocking Problem14 slides8 characters + the narratorCharlie Brown's Stocking Problem synopsis:Charlie Brown asks his friends about their Christmas stockings, and if they are worried about the Christmas holiday. They all provide unique answers. Later that evening, Sally panics and asks Charlie Brown to hang up her stocking. Charlie Brown looks around, but he can't f
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3rd - 6th, Adult Education
The Gift of the Magi Reader's Theater Script -Questions -O. Henry
On went her old brown jacket; on went her old brown hat. With a whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street. Where she stopped the sign read: "Mme. Sofronie. Hair Goods of All Kinds." One flight up Della ran, and collected herself, panting. Madame, large, too white, chilly, hardly looked the "Sofronie." DellaWill you buy my hair? Madame SofronieI buy hair. Take your hat off and let's have a sight at the looks of i
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Christmas Phantoms Reader's Theatre -Maxim Gorky
VoiceYes, this is who they are, the sad heroes of your successful story. All the others are also heroes of your Christmas stories: children, men and women whom you made to freeze to death in order to amuse the public. See how many there are and how pitiful they look, the offspring of your fancy!Included in the Christmas Phantoms Reader's Theatre Unit:10 page script5 characters41 analytical questions that range from easy to challenging. These questions can be asked of the class as a discussion, o
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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A Christmas Memory Reader's Theater Script -Truman Capote
Inside myself, I feel warm and sparky as those crumbling logs, carefree as the wind in the chimney. My friend waltzes round the stove, the hem of her poor calico skirt pinched between her fingers as though it were a party dress: Show me the way to go home, she sings, her tennis shoes squeaking on the floor. Show me the way to go home. Enter: two relatives. Very angry. Potent with eyes that scold, tongues that scald. Listen to what they have to say, the words tumbling together into a wrathful tun
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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