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High school literature scripts for Microsoft Word
The Great Gatsby excerpts abridged and adapted for readers' theater
Bring F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby to life by performing a readers' theater version of select scenes. Including in the bundle are scripts for the following scenes:From Chapter 1: Nick's visit to the Buchanans' East Egg mansionFrom Chapter 2: Tom and Nick train ride past the Valley of Ashes through the chaotic party at Manhattan apartmentFrom Chapter 3: When Neck connects with Jordan at Gatsby's partyFrom Chapter 4: The meeting with Meyer WolfsheimFrom Chapter 5 (Bonus file): Gatsby an
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10th - 12th
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Drama for Kids - Thirty One Act Plays for the Classroom
This collection includes the following thirty short plays: Stone Soup, Princess on the Rocks, Rhyming Goldilocks, A Magic Paint Brush, The Lost Horse, The Wolf and the Lamb, The Lion and the Mouse, The Grasshopper and the Ants, The Tortoise and the Hare, Belling the Cat, The Lion in Love, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Fox without a Tail, The Crow and the Pitcher, The Hare with Many Friends, The Heifer and the Ox, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, Bullies, Dr. Chicken and Mr. Hawk, Gift of the
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3rd - 9th
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The Most Dangerous Game Reader's Theater and Activity
Students love "The Most Dangerous Game." They love the story, suspense, and characters. What they don't love is the lengthy exposition. I teach conflict with this story, but by the time we get to the main conflict, students get bored and check out.
I took the first half of the story and turned it into a two-part reader's theater. The first part takes students to the initial discussion with Zaroff with a chance for them to predict what the most dangerous game is. The second part takes them
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7th - 12th
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Romayo & Julie: a humorous adaptation of Romeo & Juliet for the classroom
Re-experience the Shakespearean classic, Romeo & Juliet with this modern, humorous adaptation that can be used in the classroom for discussion or Reader's Theater, on the stage for a royalty-free performance or as part of a school-wide read for students to deal with discrimination and bullying. With 17 character parts, this original script can be used again and again by English teachers and drama coaches alike. Instead of spending hundreds of dollars on scripts and the rights to perform a
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6th - 9th
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Lord of the Flies Readers' Theater Chapter 11 Castle Rock (Piggy's death)
This is Chapter 11 of William Golding's Lord of the Flies turned into a readers' theater script. The script closely follows the text of Chapter 11 Castle Rock. Students are able to perform this climatic chapter in class or read it independently with the help of dialogue tags. In my own classroom, I usually have students read the chapter at home and then we perform it the following day. 6 pages available as a Microsoft Word Docx
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9th - 12th
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A Christmas Carol:a modern play for reader's theater or royalty-free performance
As a companion text for Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Three Ghosts and a Jock is the full package including a script for 23 actors which can be performed royalty-free or used in the classroom as a reader's theater production. This modern version is set in a school and follows basketball star, Ethan Scott, "rich" in talent, but poor in matters of the heart as three teachers of school days past, present and future visit him to change his erroneous ways. Crafted from the original, this str
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6th - 9th
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Treasure Island Readers Theater
Readers theater version of Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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4th - 10th
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Nine Short Plays for Kids
Nine short plays for kids, including McRumpelstiltskin, The Heifer and the Ox, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, Bullies, Dr. Chicken and Mr. Hawk, Gift of the Magi, Nun Fun, Narcissus and Echo, and Perseus and Medusa.
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4th - 9th
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12 Angry Men Debate
12 Angry Men, by Reginald Rose, is a class American play. I do this play with my senior English class, but this is appropriate for all high school grades. After reading the play, I follow up with this debate. The epilogue incites a different look at the evidence in the play. With a new defendant and new evidence, students are divided into 2 sides: Defense and Prosecutor. Their goal is to argue, successfully, for their side (guilty or not guilty for the new defendant). This lesson should be
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9th - 12th
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Adapted Script of Shakespeare's Macbeth
This 26 page script is the fourth in a series, and it also retains much of Shakespeare's language, including such timeless quotes as, "Yet I do fear thy nature; it is too full of the milk of human kindness," and "Out, damned spot!" It is shortened and simplified for use by 6th through 10th grade and RSP English classes.
Students are quickly engaged by this tale of witches, magic, murder, revenge, betrayal, and the ultimate triumph of the rightful king. Classes have used this script for puppet sh
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6th - 10th
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Monologue Package Including Assignment and Rubric
Tired of hunting through the Internet, looking for monologues that are appropriate for your high school students? Exhausted with copying and pasting and trying to get all of the formatting fixed? This is the answer for you!
This package includes the following:
-18 monologues for females*
-12 monologues for males*
-bonus! Monologue assignment sheet and rubric for assessment
*Please note that genders for monologues can be switched around at will
If you are a Canadian Drama teacher this package
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9th - 12th
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Twenty Minute (more or less) Romeo and Juliet Reader's Theatre
Twenty Minute Classics are read as reader’s theatre scripts with the option of stage performance. They are adapted scripts from classic plays which can serve as introductions or as an after-play activity. This adaptation of Romeo and Juliet highlights many of the essential lines of the play with playful wit mixed in.
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9th - 12th
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Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Script - 45 Minute Version!
This is Shakespeare's famous play A Midsummer Night's Dream condensed down to 45 minutes. Puck acts as both the mischievous fairy and the narrator leading the audience from scene to scene. Perfect for school plays for younger actors and short performance events.
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5th - 9th
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Mock Trial Outline for The Outsiders
Make your mock trial accessible to all of your students! I struggled with a way to ensure that all students were engaged in the process, and decided that creating a class outline was the best option. ALL students were required to fill in the packet for all of the roles, and we pulled names from a hat for parts on the day of the trial. Many students said that this was their favorite activity of the year!
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6th - 10th
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Readers Theater - Washington Crossing the Delaware
One act readers theater showing Washington's decision to cross the Delaware River and defeat the English in New Jersey.Cast:GENERAL WASHINGTONCOLONEL REEDJOHN HONEYMANCOLONEL RALLA CORPORALA SOLDIERGENERAL KNOXCOLONEL GLOVERMOBVOICEORDERLY
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4th - 10th
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To Kill A Mockingbird- Script of the Trial
I originally created this nineteen page script which covers the entire trial of Tom Robinson to help keep students focused and interested in the novel. However, it was such a huge success with the students that I have used it every year. Students sign up for parts, we act it out in the Drama Room, they dress up and thouroughly enjoy the experience. The script follows the trial exactly as it is in the novel, summarizing some details (read by the narrator) but keeping in the testimony of all th
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8th - 10th
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Shakespeare in 60 Seconds Dramatization (Creative Presentation)
The challenge: present an entire act of a play in 60 seconds.
Make Shakespeare presentations more fun! This assignment requires students to work as a team, choose important lines, scenes and character reactions in order to portray part of a play. At the end, students will have a thorough understanding of their Act.
I'm pretty strict with the 60 second limit (5 second grace period under/over) before I deduct marks. This means that presentations are well rehearsed, and memorized. Students who di
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7th - 12th
Translated Script of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
After years of teaching the play, I decided to update it in order to make it more accessible to my students and also so they could ENJOY acting it out instead of just reading it from a textbook. The translation keeps all of the important lines and famous words, but becomes a script that you can print and copy and kids can actually hold in their hands, write on, annotate, and even write stage directions on. The script can be read aloud, acted out, divided up into groups, the options are endless
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8th - 12th
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Skit for Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
This skit covers the following book sections:The City of Destruction, meeting Evangelist, Obstinate and the Slough of Despond, meeting Help.
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4th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Skits for Pilgrim's Progress Bundled
Alice in Wonderland: A Mad Tea Party Reader's Theater
Alice in Wonderland is a delightful classic which has enchanted readers for decades.In this adaption, one favorite scene, The Mad Tea Party, is adapted for maximum reader's theater presentation compatibility. Whether for private performance or for competition, this selection is an ideal choice. Join Alice, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the Dormouse for a delightfully mad experience!Cast: The narrator, Alice, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the DormouseApproximate reading/performance time:
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1st - 12th
Rumpelstiltskin - Small Group Reader's Theater
This is a small group reader's theater is for 4 students. In the script - a miller brags to the king that his daughter can spin straw into gold. She cannot actually do this and a little man appears and offers to do the work for her. On the third day she has nothing to pay the little man with so she promises her first child. When the little man comes to get the child, the queen begs for a chance to keep it. The little man gives her three days to figure out what his name is. There is a writing pro
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Radio Drama Script - 5 Minute Mystery
A '5 Minute Mystery' Script which was specifically made to be used as a task for students to create audio clips in the Drama unit RADIO DRAMA. However, can be used for various purposes for Drama or English.
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7th - 12th
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Seminar/Academic Discussion Script for Students!
Perhaps my favorite things I've made for freshmen. This is a script made mostly by me with some help from ChatGPT. It has 10 students with gender neutral names act out a seminar/academic discussion. I based it on Romeo and Juliet with a little House on Mango Street since that was what we had covered so far in the year.Suggested Teaching:Explain what you think seminars/graded discussions are, how you'll grade them, and any specifics to how you will do them in your class. Have 10 students voluntee
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8th - 12th
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Three Little Pigs Reader's Theater
By Drama Dreams and English Themes, this is an original four-page reader's theatre script of "The Three Little Pigs," that can be used as the basis for a variety of activities in the English or Theatre classroom. The script is written for six characters and includes humor and references to the modern world. This script is also included in my "Three Little Pigs Plot" lesson, listed elsewhere on this site. This fairytale skit provides a solid foundation for collaborative learning, discussion of mo
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6th - 10th
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