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5th grade social studies scripts for Microsoft Word
Veterans Day Program Script School Assembly or Class Activity to Honor Veterans
Are you planning a Veterans Day celebration for your school this year? This Veterans Day program script will help you get started as you plan your Veterans Day program.Our school's Veterans Day program has been my absolute favorite event of the year for over fifteen years!I have found that a program that celebrates Veterans is one of our favorite activities to bring together community members of all ages and students in our school. I have used this script at our school-wide Veterans Day progra
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Coyote Tales - Native American Reader's Theater
This package was intended for November which is Native American month but can be done at any time. My name is Melanie Whitesides but my store name is Wonbyone. One of the things I am passionate about is Reader's Theater. It is a fun way for my students to improve on their fluency. In a world where reading is pushed so hard on students that many are losing their love of reading it is IMPORTANT to give them opportunities to read that are fun. Reader's Theater does this. In this package I have plac
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Pilgrim Reader's Theater
This 7 page reader's theater script focuses on the Pilgrims. There are 3 scenes: Life on the Mayflower, The Winter and Help from the Wampanoags, and Life in Plimoth Colony. There are 5 characters per scene (I like to do this script in small group in centers.) The download product is in Word, so you will be able to adapt the script to your own curriculum needs.
Taglines: Pilgrims, Massachusetts History, Reader's Theater
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3rd - 5th
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The First Continental Congress - Skit Writing Activity
Send your students back in time to 1774 by allowing them to perform this skit for the class or the entire school. Teachers will especially love the format of the activity, which encourages students to add content to the skit using factual information.
This skit writing activity is a fun and engaging way to bring creativity and history together for an experience your students will never forget.
"The First Continental Congress" drama begins with various colonial delegates (Peyton Randolph, Henry
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5th - 8th
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The Flight of Icarus - Small Group Reader's Theater
This is a small group reader's theater is for 4-5 students. This is a Greek tragedy and is based on the story of Daedalus and Icarus. Daedalus is an inventor and very very smart. He builds King Minos a labyrinth and, after it is finished, the king decides to get rid of him. He locks Daedalus and Icarus in the labyrinth that Daedalus made him. Daedalus know the labyrinth well and he and his son escape. They go into hiding and come up with a plan to get away from the island where King Minos lives.
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4th - 12th
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Loyalist Vs. Patriot Mock Town Council- 5th Grade Social Studies
My fifth graders absolutely LOVED doing this lesson. It was really easy to do and didn't take a lot of time (the lesson took about 30-45 mins). And I felt like my students really understood the difference between a Loyalist's views and a Patriot's views at the end of the lesson. The document includes a link to the Prezi presentation I made for this lesson. Plus it has all the scripted parts for the mock town council for you to print and a lesson plan explaining how I taught this lesson. It
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5th
The Stamp Act - Skit Writing Activity
Send your students back in time to 1765 by allowing them to perform this skit for the class or the entire school. Teachers will especially love the format of the activity, which encourages students to add content to the skit using factual information.
This skit writing activity is a fun and engaging way to bring humor and history together for an experience your students will never forget.
"The Stamp Act" drama includes a conversation between King George III and Prime Minister George Grenville
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5th - 8th
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Nevada: A Children's Readers Theater Script for Nevada History
I love being a Nevadan and I love Readers Theater... so I combined the two! Perfect for an upper grades classroom, this 8 page script is educational and fun! There are songs, there are jokes, and there are great facts. Children will love participating and you could even have a performance with costumes for parents! Why not?!? This is a digital download only.
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3rd - 8th
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Convicts Assembly Play
This is a 20-minute play based on Perth’s convict history. My class performed this for an assembly and the parents absolutely loved it (as did the children). There are 16 speaking parts and the extras are convicts.
This assembly is perfect for the Year 5 Australian History Curriculum, however, could easily be adapted for other year groups.
Overview: The Year 5 class is on an overnight camp to Fremantle Prison, Perth, WA. The tour guide meets them and gives them an overview of the history beh
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4th - 7th
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Greek Myth Readers' Theater and Creative Activity Packet
Greek mythology is so much fun to explore with your students! This activity packet includes FOUR myths:-The Story of Fire (with character trait literary focus)-Pandora’s Box (theme in literature literary focus)-The Seven Pomegranate Seeds (Persephone and the Seasons)-Orpheus and Eurydice (Journey to the Underworld)For each myth, you will receive a Readers’ Theater Script. This will have your students actively engaged in the myth rather than merely listening to it or reading it! They will be
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5th - 8th
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The Boston Tea Party - Skit Writing Activity
Send your students back in time to 1773 by allowing them to perform this skit for the class or the entire school. Teachers will especially love the format of the activity, which encourages students to add content to the skit using factual information.
This skit writing activity is a fun and engaging way to bring creativity and history together for an experience your students will never forget.
"The Boston Tea Party" drama begins with a conversation between one of the Sons of Liberty and an old
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5th - 8th
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Hades Goes to Court for Kidnapping - Small Group Greek Reader's Theater
This is a small group reader's theater for 4 students. It is a short version of the story of how Hades kidnapped Persephone and tricked her into becoming his wife. In the script, Hades is in court accused of kidnapping Persephone and forcing her to live with him in the underworld. Demeter, Zeus, and Persephone are also there. Zeus is serving as the judge even though he is Persephone’s dad. They discuss what Hades did – including the way he tricked Persephone into eating something that ties her f
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Geronimo Stilton's Journey Through Time: Medieval Mission Reader's Theater
This is a reader's theater script adapted from the book, Geronimo Stilton: Journey Through Time: Medieval Mission.Geronimo and his friends travel back in time to help set things right in the days of King Arthur and Camelot. It is an easy to follow 12 page script that kids will enjoy reading and acting out. Enjoy!
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3rd - 6th
Boston Tea Party Play Script
This handout includes a play written by me about the Boston Tea Party. There are about 10 reading parts. The play reading lasts about ten minutes (more when acting it out as well). Multiple copies may be printed and laminated for future use!
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2nd - 5th
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The Intolerable or Coercive Acts - Skit Writing Activity
Send your students back in time to 1774 by allowing them to perform this skit for the class or the entire school. Teachers will especially love the format of the activity, which encourages students to add content to the skit using factual information.
This skit writing activity is a fun and engaging way to bring creativity and history together for an experience your students will never forget.
"The Intolerable Acts" drama begins with a conversation between Lord Frederick North and William Lemo
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5th - 8th
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American Revolution Puppet Show: Sugar Act, Tea act, Stamp Act and more!
Lesson includes lesson page for teachers, a rubric, a break down page of the law or act the student group will use to better understand the law, and a donation letter to get supplies from parents for the puppets.
Students will create a puppet show based on one of the British laws leading up to the American Revolution:
• Proclamation of 1763
• Quartering Act
• Sugar Act
• Stamp Act
• Declaratory Act
• Townshend Acts
• Intolerable Acts
• Tea Act
The students will write out a short dialog
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4th - 12th
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History of Immigration Readers Theater
This readers theater explains the history of immigration to the United States. I have used it as a whole class language arts/history activity by numbering each line. My students all have numbers so it is easy for them to see what part they have to say. Each line is short as to keep the reading moving. The script can be adapted for any number of students by editing the numbers next to each line. I have used this readers theater as an introduction to a unit as well as a final wrap-up.
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4th - 8th
Readers' Theater: Paul Revere
Your students will love this approach to history! This 16 page readers theater is specifically created to meet the Georgia Performance Standards for 3rd grade. Paul Revere is one of several historic figures featured in our Social Studies curriculum. However this readers' theater meets the objective of several general GPS in grades K - 5, making it a great choice in may Social Studies classrooms.
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2nd - 8th
How Coyote Got His Name - A Small Group Reader's Theater
This is a Native American tale about how Coyote got his name. This is for 5 to 9 students. He features prominently in a lot of stories of the Navajo and in many other tribes. I first saw this one online but have heard it from our Navajo teacher since. I use reader's theaters to encourage my students to practice fluency. It is a fun way to do something that they need. Most of my scripts are in black and white so they photo copy easily. This one does have a colored picture on the first page but t
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3rd - 6th, Adult Education
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Epic of Gilgamesh Script Adaptation for Middle and High School (Full Script)
This script was written for middle and high school reader's theatre and class play productions. It is fast-paced, fun, and clean while preserving as much of the original language and plot as possible.
It is appropriate for cast sizes between 15 and 40.
The play runs between 38 and 45 minutes long.
The script includes audience participation elements and an audience script making it highly engaging and perfect for performances for elementary and mixed-age audiences.
A sample program and pr
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5th - 9th
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Pandora's Box - Small Group Reader's Theater
This is a small group reader's theater for 4 students. It is a Greek legend about how trouble came into the world via Pandora's Box. In the script, Zeus is angry with Prometheus and Epimetheus because they gave man fire. He chains Prometheus to a rock and then makes a plan to punish Epimetheus as well. First he has Hephaestus make him a new daughter and names her Pandora. Then he introduces them to each other and suggests they marry. Epimetheus knows there must be a trap but falls in love. They
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Curiosity the Rover and the Long Trip to Mars
This is an original Reader's Theater script for elementary grades.
It imagines Curiosity the Rover's trip to Mars and what it encounters...
It includes 5 characters and includes a vocabulary list as well.
A fun story based on a relevant event that every student is interested in!
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2nd - 6th
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The Story of the Erie Canal: Reader's Theater Play
This is a short classroom play about the Erie Canal. It is very useful for reader's theater, a class activity, or a short class play! It is filled to the brim with his historical information. Feel free to make changes to fit your school's needs.
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3rd - 6th
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The Boston Tea Party - Historical Small Group Reader's Theater
This script was written for 4 students. It was written to teach or reinforce a lesson about the Boston Tea Party of 1773. In the script, The students are having a test today on the Boston Tea Party. Everyone has studied except Alex. He didn’t think he needed to because he already knew about regular tea parties. But the Boston Tea Party was a protest by the colonies against the British Tea Act and NOT a real tea party. Chad, Rose, and Sarah tell him all about it and how the Boston Tea Party led t
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