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10th grade U.S. History scripts
Marbury v Madison Reader's Theater
Learning about a major landmark Supreme Court case has never been more engaging! The Marbury v Madison Reader's Theater is a perfect addition to the Civics curriculum in middle school or high school.Included in this resource:1. 3 page script for 5-6 students (estimated time: 4-6 minutes)2. 5 discussion promptsPlease take a peek at the preview to see if this resource fits the needs of your classroom. If you have any questions, please let me know in the Q and A section of my store! Happy Teaching!
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Jefferson and Madison Era Complete Unit Bundle
National Security Council Simulation / Cuban Missile Crisis (U.S. History)
U.S. History: National Security Council Simulation / Cuban Missile Crisis. Here is the World Scenario: The Soviet Union, the global rival of the United States, has moved Intermediate and medium range ballistic missiles with unclear capabilities to its ally country Cuba, a small island nation located 100 miles from the eastern coast of the continental United States....Students always remark how this simulation is one of their favorite activities of the year!!! You hold the World Scenario, stude
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Cold War Unit Bundle (World History)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Reader's Theater Script-Stories)
Looking for a fun way to add a little imagination to American Literature? Why not try one of American Lit's most underrated writers, Washington Irving? Irving spun legend, humor, and social commentary together into his own unique storytelling style.This collection features adaptations of Washington Irving's three most popular stories:The Legend of Sleepy HollowRip Van WinkleThe Devil and Tom WalkerEach script-story is approximately 30-50 minutes and intended for use with students from 6th-12th g
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â American Literature Teaching Resources Bundle
The Scarlet Letter (Reader's Theater Script-Story Collection)
Have you ever wanted to teach The Scarlet Letter but couldn't find the time? While preserving the author's literary style, this 52-page text adapts Hawthorne's classic novel into four 45-minute Reader's Theater script-stories. Allowing the students to inhabit classic characters like Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale brings the literature to life!
Also included with the script-stories is a teacher guide for each of the four parts, complete with relevant background information, plot summary,
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â American Literature Teaching Resources Bundle
Second Great Awakening and Reformers of the 1800s - A Play
"Dr. Phil Interviews the Second Great Awakening Preachers and the Reformers." This purpose of this play is to help students understand the connection between the Second Great Awakening and the Reforms of the early 1800s and to help students identify each reformer and his or her cause. To keep students engaged, some students will read while others will jot notes onto a chart. After the play is over, students who wrote will share their notes and a discussion will help students fill in their cha
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8th - 10th
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WWII D-Day Experience/Simulation (Normandy, France June 6, 1944)
In this activity your students will experience the chaos of WWII's D-Day invasion of Normandy, France. Students will learn a brief history of the invasion while participating in physical and mental challenges. This is a fully immersive experience, with movement, video, battle sounds, enemy fire, and scripts included. A fabulous open-and-go activity that students will be talking about long after the class has ended. This experience runs roughly one hour.
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8th - 12th
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Game: Who Shot Prospector Pete (Murder Mystery activity)
Prospector Pete is found shot in the back at his mining claim with a peck of people possibly involved including his wife Betsy, the Raindance Kid, Hoss Steel, Lily Lang Tree (or is it Land Tree?) and many more. Jump right in as a suspect and a detective and figure out who did it.
Mystery party games are an engaging alternative to hum drum usual fare and make wonderful drama activities. Add spice to that theater class, family reunion, retreat or birthday/anniversary party. Acting experience and
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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US History for AP/College(52 PPT/750 slides+Texts+Rec.Videos) by PhD in History
Dear colleagues,This is my best course, which is suitable for both AP classes and university lectures. I hope it will equip your students with everything they need to know about US History.The course includes:52 high-quality presentations with over 750 slides (concluding with the George W. Bush administration)39 .docx files containing concise information for your classes. These texts are based on my lectures, organized in a more coherent manner with the help of AIA file with links to more than 1
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
The Salem Witch Trials (Reader's Theater Script-Story + Reading Guide Questions)
The Salem Witch Trials are one of the most bizarre and confounding events in American History. For no apparent reason men, women, and children suddenly started making wild accusations that their neighbors were servants of the Devil, who were supernaturally cursing them. In the ensuing hysteria more than 200 people were accused of witchcraft, and many died. But what were the roots of this hysteria?This historically-accurate dramatization of the real-life hysteria surrounding the Salem Witch Trial
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7th - 12th
Also included in:Â American Literature Teaching Resources Bundle
Reader’s Theater Pack: Factors Influencing Westward Movement
Reader’s Theater Pack: Factors Influencing Westward Movement
This Reader’s Theater Pack features 6 scripts that focus on the factors that influenced western migration during this period of US expansion.
Factors focused on include:
Population growth in eastern states
Availability of cheap, fertile land
Economic opportunity (including the Gold Rush)
Cheaper and faster transportation (trains, steamboats, canals)
Knowledge of the Overland Trails (Santa Fe and Oregon Trails)
Manifest Destiny
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4th - 12th
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John Adams Presidency Complete Lesson with Skit!
Engage your students in this lesson about America's second president! Students will learn and do the following in this lesson: -Election of 1796 (Analyze Electoral College Maps and answer questions)-Foreign Policy Strategies: Diplomacy, trade sanctions, embargo, military aid and military action-Causes for tension with France in late 1700s: Discuss which foreign policy strategy they would use if they were president-XYZ Affair and Quasi War: Reading and Questions, + Act out a Skit, with PowerPoin
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5th - 10th
Also included in:Â Early Presidents Unit: Washington to Monroe
Tinker v Des Moines Reader's Theater
Learning about a major landmark Supreme Court case has never been more engaging! The Tinker v Des Moines Reader's Theater is a perfect addition to the Civics curriculum in middle school or high school.
Included in this resource:
1. 3 page script for 6-7 students (estimated time: 4-6 minutes)
2. 5 discussion prompts
Please take a peek at the preview to see if this resource fits the needs of your classroom. If you have any questions, please let me know in the Q and A section of my store!
Happy
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7th - 10th
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Reader's Theaters Plays - 9-Pack Bundle, US History 1600-1860
My reader's theaters plays have been a hit in my classroom and on TPT. Enjoy the fruits of my labor by bundling the first 10 plays of the early American history period, from American beginnings through the Antebellum period. Here are the reader's theaters you'll get in this package:1 - First Americans Cross Bering Strait: a fun skit about our first indigenous people ($3)2 - Stroke of a Penn: William Penn's founding of PA ($1.50)3 - Sons of Liberty: imagining Boston's finest as a biker gang ($3)4
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5th - 12th
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Reader's Theater Play - The First Americans Cross Bering Strait
This reader's theater explores how Native people theoretically crossed the Bering Strait and branched into the early, great civilizations of the Olmec, Mayan, Inca, Aztec, Mississippian, and Southwest.
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5th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Reader's Theaters Plays - 9-Pack Bundle, US History 1600-1860
Play 1899 Newsies Strike, Summaries of 8 famous strikes, Questions, Labor Unions
Play on 1899 Newsies Strike
Current Child Labor Laws
Summaries of 8 famous strikes by Labor Unions (Haymarket, Coal, Pullman, RR, NFL, etc)
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Labor Unions
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8th - 12th
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The Salem Witch Trials Guided Reading Play Scripts
Set of 5 Guided Reading Play Scripts (plus quizzes) on The Salem Witch Trials.
Boredom, over-active imaginations and a certain flair for amateur dramatics - all fatally combined to produce one of the cruelest travesties of justice in U.S. history. 19 hangings of complete innocents, labeled as witches ... by children. Who, or what, was to blame? Sift through some very suspect evidence and draw your own conclusions, from this set of guided reading play scripts, written by Sue Russell, covering th
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4th - 12th
A Virtual Field Trip to Colonial Williamsburg
This PowerPoint presentation takes the viewer on a virtual field trip to Colonial Williamsburg, a reconstruction of the Virginia settlement that played an important role leading up to the American Revolution. A complete script is included. No other teacher preparation is required.
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5th - 12th
Reader's Theater Play - The Shot & Plot: Abraham Lincoln's Assassinaton
The tale of John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Abraham Lincoln is a difficult one to digest. It was multifaceted and complex, but this 6-page reader's theater helps bring that to life and simplify the raw emotion and anger behind assassinating quite possibly our nation's greatest President.
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5th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Reader's Theaters Plays - 9-Pack Bundle, US History 1600-1860
Paul Revere's Midnight Ride (Reader's Theater Script-Story)
This dramatized yet historically-accurate Reader's Theater script-story presents major events in the life of Paul Revere beginning with his childhood and leading up to the American Revolution. Beginning life as a silversmith, Revere finds himself entangled in the growing unrest in colonial Boston. Events featured in the script include: Sons of Liberty meetings at the Old North Church, Revere's spy missions as a courier, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and Paul Revere's famous midnigh
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â American Literature Teaching Resources Bundle
Declaration of Independence Break Up Letter
Free break up letter text and how I use it to trick my class and engage them in the Declaration of Independence. A letter is found on the floor written by hand. The teacher reads it to the class without naming names. The next day it is revealed that this is actually a letter from the American Colonies sent to King George.OTHER FREEBIES* VOCABULARY GRAPHIC ORGANIZER* NO BS HISTORY CLASSROOM POSTERSCIVICS RESOURCES* CITIZEN GAME QUIZ/GAME* POLITICAL HERITAGE QUIZ/GAMECOOL CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS
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5th - 12th
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Scripts: WW1 and League of Nations reader's theater
Sorting out who did what when internationally regarding WW1 can be confusing. Two of these three scripts help students comprehend events by means of an analogy to a club brawl. They explain the causes, events and aftermath of WW1 including the peace process. The third script covers the debate around whether or not the US should join the League of Nations from the perspective of actual historical figures. These are part of the American History readers theater bundleIncluded are directions on
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7th - 10th
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United States History Tariff of Abominations Simulation
This simulation helps students understand why the South hated Protective Tariffs. The simulation involves allowing two sellers to sell either candy or a homework pass. One group sells for double the price since it must charge a tariff. One group of students is "set up" to have to buy the more expensive product. Included with the simulation is a short play to further the student's understanding. Thanks for your interest.
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8th - 10th
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Last of the Mohicans (Reader's Theater Script-Story Collection)
It's time to rediscover America's first literary success: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. With the creation of Natty Bumppo/Hawkeye, the world-weary woodsman, Cooper created a new literary archetype: the rugged frontiersman. The novel addresses complex themes like the disappearance of the native way of life, racism, and cultural blending.While preserving the author's literary style, this 73-page text adapts Cooper's classic novel for modern audiences through four 45-minute Re
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â American Literature Teaching Resources Bundle
Reader's Theater Play - How The Scopes Monkey Trial Altered America
The Scopes Monkey Trial is one of the most misunderstood events in American history. What we only refer to with a poking, prodding stick (because it deals with evolution) actually turned the United States's political sphere upside down, thanks to the bombastic debate and trial levied by Charles Darrow and William Jennings Bryan.
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5th - 12th
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