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The Crucible - Symbolism of Puritan Names Web Quest
Unless your students are religious, they may not know the significance of the biblical names in The Crucible. I give this to the students after Act 1 to fully understand the allusion of the historical names and town in which the play takes place.
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8th - 12th
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Author Information Organizer
Need an organizer for your students to find information on an author for a book? Use this easy table to guide your students into finding the appropriate information on authors.
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Not Grade Specific
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Puppetry Research Project
Teach your students the history of various types of puppetry from around the world! Students will be assigned (or they can choose) a puppetry topic and then they will present about their puppetry style to the class! This resource includes links to informational websites for students as well as guided questions for them research in order to complete their presentation. This can be easily modified to students writing a research paper instead of presenting. Students can also work individually or in
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7th - 12th
Alfred Hitchcock Film Short Research Project
Students choose a Hitchcock film to research. Ties in to Study Sync 8th Grade Unit 1 "Suspense".
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7th - 12th
Drama Class: Research and Perform a Ghost Story
This is a fun quick assignment for students to research and dramatically present to the class a ghost story they have found from around the world. I also had them write out the story to turn in as part of their grade.This assignment can be modified as a group presentation. One can also have students act out a story they have found interesting instead of a presentation. There's lots of ways to be creative with it!
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4th - 9th
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Jackie Robinson Readers Theatre
Have a look through Jackie Robinson's eyes with readers theatre? Experience the racism and prejudices, he faces within the baseball league, with a kid-friendly approach. This product has 7 speaking parts perfect for a small group or whole class read aloud
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K - 3rd
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Broadway Dynamic Duos and Perfect Pairings Scavenger Hunt
Have you noticed how “dynamic duos” and “perfect pairs” have shaped Broadway history? Teach the importance of collaboration and cooperation with an online scavenger hunt that celebrates the magic of shared ideas and working partnerships! From the early 1900s to present day, Broadway has boasted creative pairings such as the Gershwin Brothers, Kaufman and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Fosse and Verdon, Glenda and Elphaba, and even Timon and Pumbaa! Students will choose 15 of 25
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Theatre Online Scavenger Hunt Bundle
Hamilton Inquiry Chart Directions
Use with the Hamilton I-Chart. Inquiry-charts, or I-charts are, in my experience, one of the easiest ways to teach students research-based writing skills. Teachers or students choose a question they wish to investigate (in this case, "How historically accurate is the musical Hamilton?") and then break this question into 3 supporting questions. (For example, if examining the title song from the musical, you could break the question into "Where was Hamilton born?", "Who were Hamilton's parents?",
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8th - 12th
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Mock Trial on the Atom Bomb
Mock Trial: Case of Who is Responsible?America is on trial for War Crimes (an action carried out during the conduct of a war that violates accepted international rules of war) in using the atom bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.Includes: Roles, Trial Procedures, Opening Statements, Research questions, Examples for preparation
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7th - 12th
Artists in Activism (Music)
A research task in which students are assigned a contemporary musician who has been actively involved in social or environmental activism. Once completing their background research, they take on the role of their personality for an interview skit with a partner. This was conducted with grade 7 and 8 students with great success, and could be modified for other age groups by changing the individuals assigned as topics.
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5th - 10th
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Julius Caesar Quarter Project
This is part of a unit on William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. This is the project that my high school students complete during the unit. The dates are for this year, but can easily be adjusted. There are two parts to the project: a research/analysis essay and a creative rhetoric video. Depending on the class, these project may been to be modified to be easier or more difficult. For instance, I require my students to complete their essays in MLA format and take source notes (to discourage plagia
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9th - 12th
The Crucible Project
This is a creative project or performance assessment that goes with Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
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9th - 12th
Artist Interview Work Sheet
Simple Interview script for students to gain knowledge of basic information on artists. Then a couple of questions about interesting information and what students see as being special about their artist.
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4th - 8th
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Great American Speeches Project
The goal of the project is for each student to deliver a portion of a notable American speech. The project offers students a chance to develop their speaking skills before an audience of their peers.
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6th - 12th
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Articles for a Romeo and Juliet Socratic Seminar
This doc contains articles that can be utilized for a Socratic Seminar with Romeo and Juliet. I have another resource in my store specific to Act III of Romeo and Juliet that you can check out as well!
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7th - 10th
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American Musical Small Research Project
A small and easy research project to acquaint students with American musical history. The information for teachers goes into some detail if you have limited exposure to musicals. Teachers who are confident in their musical knowledge can just skip to the general instructions and rubric for students. Students can access information on IBDB.com, Wikipedia is actually accurate for the shows that they would be researching. New World Encyclopedia also has good information. It's more about acquainting
Inherit the Wind: Comparing Characters to the People Who Inspired Them
In Inherit the Wind, several of the characters are based in part upon real people from the Scopes "Monkey" Trial that took place in Dayton, TN in 1925. This chart is meant to help students not only use direct and indirect characterization to create profiles of the characters as presented in the play, but lead into a discussion about how these characters are similar to and different from their real counterparts. I also use it as a way to talk about how an artist/writer can approach a subject an
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9th - 12th
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Theatre History Extensive Overview
A complete, outlined history of theatre. This (with the fill-in-the-blank supplement) will help in guiding students through an overarching look into theatre from its beginning to the present. The outline is written as a user friendly, timeline that signifies important dates in all types of theatre, important people or events that have shaped history and theatre, and important theatrical productions. I use this at the beginning of each school year to reinforce the historical significance of the a
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9th - 12th
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Shakespeare Concrete Poem
As an introduction to any Shakespeare unit and a connection to poetry, have students find facts regarding Shakespeare and generate a concrete poem with that information.
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9th - 12th
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The God with the Most Thesis Paper
Short formal writing assignment on a Greek god or goddess that gives students practice with making thesis statement claims.
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9th - 12th
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Film and Television Research Questions
This is an editable list of questions that students may use to research the history and development of film and television technology.
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5th - 9th
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