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Higher education reading scripts
Holidays - Reader's Theatre Play
This is an 11 page HOLIDAY PLAY that can be used with a class or theatre group to put on a performance to both small and large audiences. It is based loosely on the story 'Scrooge.' It centers around a student that wants to quit the Holiday play out of selfishness. After visits from Spirits the main character learns the errors of his ways. The play teaches a moral about how others depend on us even though we don't realize it. For adventurous teachers, there are also some recommendations for s
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
Animal Farm Reader's Theatre Unit -George Orwell -Russia -Questions
SnowballThe Seven Commandments may be reduced to a single maxim: "Four legs good, two legs bad." This statement contains the essential principle of Animalism. Whoever has thoroughly grasped it, will be safe from human influences. SheepFour legs good, two legs bad! Four legs good, two legs bad!When they had once got it by heart, the sheep developed a great liking for this maxim, and often as they lay in the field, they would all start bleating it for hours on end, never growing tired of it.Snowba
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Reader's Theatre Script -Mark Twain -Rubric
Included in the Adventures of Tom Sawyer Reader's Theatre Unit:300 page script35 chapters93 multiple choice questions bank with answers49 metacognitive questionsReader's Theatre Evaluations based on 4 levels and 5 criteria.Student Success CriteriaStudent Friendly GoalsTeacher's Reader's Theatre ChecklistMr. Marvel's Musings-I have edited out all of the derogatory racist words that were in the original text. There is no place for such demeaning terminology; no matter the age of the reader. "Injun
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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1984 Reader's Theatre Script Unit -George Orwell -Dystopia -Questions & Quiz
Winston SmithWhat are you in for? Tom ParsonsThoughtcrime! Winston SmithAre you guilty? Tom ParsonsOf course I'm guilty! You don't think the Party would arrest an innocent man, do you? Thoughtcrime is a dreadful thing, old man. It's insidious. It can get hold of you without your even knowing it. Do you know how it got hold of me? In my sleep! Yes, that's a fact. There I was, working away, trying to do my bit—never knew I had any bad stuff in my mind at all. And then I started talking in my sleep
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Mystery In The Library 4 play versions for 10 to 30 for use by different classes
The characters come out of their books at night to frolic. His Majesty King Henry VIII – has disappeared. Who rid the library of Henry?
Reading level: 6
This comes with teacher's notes. Each version has a different person who did it.
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The other night in the library, when many characters were out of their books enjoying a sojourn in the night air, a crime was committed, grim and grave, right in our own library. As a result his Majesty Henry VIII – that famous monarch from the English
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Charlotte's Web Reader's Theatre Unit -Questions Quiz Rubric
Included in the Charlotte's Web Reader's Theatre Unit:167 page script divided among 22 chaptersChapter 1: Before Breakfast = 5 characters and 5 pagesChapter 2: Wilbur = 3 characters and 3 pagesChapter 3: Escape = 9 characters and 8 pagesChapter 4: Loneliness = 6 characters and 5 pagesChapter 5: Charlotte = 4 characters and 8 pagesChapter 6: Summer Days = 6 characters and 5 pagesChapter 7: Bad News = 3 characters and 5 pagesChapter 8: A Talk at Home = 3 characters and 3 pagesChapter 9: Wilbur's
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4th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale Reader's Theatre Script - Questions
Quail reached into his coat for his wallet. Douglas QuailOkay. It’s been my life-long ambition and so I see I’ll never really do it. So I guess I’ll have to settle for this. Mr. McClaneDon’t think of it that way. You’re not accepting second-best. The actual memory with all its vagueness, omissions and ellipses, not to say distortions-that’s second-best. Mr. McClane accepted the money and pressed a button on his desk. Mr. McClaneAll right, Mr. Quail, you’re on your way to Mars as a secret agent.I
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Second Variety Reader's Theatre Story -Philip K. Dick -Questions & Rubric Sci-Fi
Corporal Rudi MaxerYou see, that was why we wanted to talk terms. The Russians, I mean. We found out about a week ago. Found out that your claws were beginning to make up new designs on their own. New types of their own. Better types. Down in your underground factories behind our lines. You let them stamp themselves, repair themselves. Made them more and more intricate. It’s your fault this happened.Klaus EpsteinYou see, the claws were designed to get to human beings. To find them. Each kind was
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
THE ROUNDABOUT INN, a 2-Act Play for high-school, college, or adult production
"THE ROUNDABOUT INN"a play in two actsbyMICHAEL RULIN BLEVINSACTING EDITIONPlay: Full-lengthCast: 7 male, 4 female: 11 total [Includes one 10 yr old boy & two teenagers 15 yrs & 19 yrs]Playing Time: approx. 1 hr & 45 mins.Setting: As simple or elaborate as desiredCostumes: Everyday modern dressLighting: As simple or elaborate as desiredThe Roundabout Inn, by Broadway, Film, Television veteran, and performing arts educator Michael Blevins, is excellent for high-school, college, and/o
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Sorry, Wrong Number -Reader's Theater Script -Suspense -Lucille Fletcher
Sergeant MartinYou know, telephones are funny things. Now, look, why don’t you look at it this way: Supposing you hadn’t broken in on that telephone call. Supposing you got your husband the way you always do. You wouldn’t be so upset, would you? Agnes StevensonI...well I suppose not. But it sounded so inhuman, so cold blooded… Sergeant MartinWell, a lot of murders are plotted in this city everyday, ma’am. We manage to prevent almost all of them, but a clue of this kind is so vague, it isn’t mu
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers Reader's Theatre Script -Questions & Rubric
Included in the Invasion of the Body Snatchers Reader's Theatre Unit:240 page script divided among 21 chapters24 characters55 questions3 Essay Questions (With Answers)3 pages of Novel AnalysisReader's Theatre Evaluations based on 4 levels and 5 criteria.Student Success CriteriaStudent Friendly GoalsTeacher's Reader's Theatre ChecklistChapter 1: A Familiar Face12 pages with 3 characters + the narratorChapter 2: Wilma's Concern12 pages with 4 characters + the narratorChapter 3: Contagious Neurosis
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Fossil Soup Reader's Theater for the Classroom
This is a Reader's Theater for the entire class. We did it as our spring play and, of course being teachers, we merged the Language Arts goals of reading with our Science goal of learning about fossils. My name is Melanie Whitesides and my class has had a lot of fun with this Reader's Theater. It is a take off from Stone Soup and was adjusted to fit the 4th grade science Core objective.Fossil Soup Reader's Theater by Melanie Whitesides is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci
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3rd - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Script: Sir Gawain (4 reader's theaters, plans)
Teaching Medieval literature can be challenging when modern students see difficult text and no connection to their own lives. The following script and plans will whet their appetites, and provide activities to interact with the text and each other while making personal and group connections. The packet contain an introductory activity (creating and acting out a skit) four readers theater scripts (7 pages), an art connection, 4 rubrics and internet resources. Other available Medieval and Renais
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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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
Brave New World Reader's Theatre Script Aldous Huxley Dystopia
Mustapha MondWhat's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you? That was when science first began to be controlled--after the Nine Years' War. People were ready to have even their appetites controlled then. Anything for a quiet life. We've gone on controlling ever since. It hasn't been very good for truth, of course. But it's been very good for happiness. One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it,
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Anne of Green Gables Reader's Theatre Script -Lucy Maud Montgomery
Marilla CuthbertAnne Shirley, do you mean to tell me you believe all that wicked nonsense of your own imagination? Anne ShirleyNot believe exactly. At least, I don’t believe it in daylight. But after dark, Marilla, it’s different. That is when ghosts walk. Marilla CuthbertThere are no such things as ghosts, Anne. Anne ShirleyOh, but there are, Marilla. I know people who have seen them. And they are respectable people. Charlie Sloane says that his grandmother saw his grandfather driving home the
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Shooting of Dan McGrew Reader's Theatre Script & Slide-Show Unit
1 - Included in The Shooting of Dan McGrew Slide-Show Unit:91 slides that include 6 ways to present Robert Service's poem:*Text with pictures*Text followed by full pictures*Text only*Pictures only*Text with alternate pictures*Alternate pictures only*A slide about the Gold Rush*A slide describing what the "green stuff" was that they drank?*A slide about Robert W. Service*A slide asking your students to define 14 words found in the poem*A slide asking your students to plot the exposition, conflict
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
CLASSIC 1-ACT PLAY: "The Closet" a dramatic fantasy for sophisticated actors
Halman’s"THE CLOSET”A Play in One-ActACTING EDITIONText & Stage-Business Revised and Editedfor 21st Century productionbyMICHAEL RULIN BLEVINSPlay/Dramatic FantasyCast: 4f (1 ten yr. old girl)Playing Time approx 25 minutesSimple – Closet Doors with HallwaySYNOPSIS: The Closet presents a vivid fantasy of the “skeleton’ behind humdrum lives. Its value is twofold, for not only is it an excellent study-play, but this setting, while simple, can be done in the modern expressionistic style making f
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, 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
Just So Story Bundle of Small Group Reader's Theaters
The scripts in this pack were written for 3 - 6 students. Each script is an adaptation of one of a Just So Story. Rudyard Kipling's stories are a great way to teach students how to look for lessons or morals! I use all of my Reader's Theaters to help students improve their fluency. My students, especially the ones struggling to read, still require motivation to improve and that is where Reader's Theater comes in. Some of the scripts have a writing prompt for the students to respond to. You can b
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Seis obras cortas que muestran la secuencia de tiempos, 6 skits in Spanish
These six amusing short plays, to be read in the classroom by your students, reinforce the sequence of verb tenses in Spanish.
Your students will practice the subjunctive, the past subjunctive, the future and the conditional while given an opportunity to speak in front of others in a situation that lowers the affective filter. They will also have a chance to enjoy themselves. © Rebecca Bowman
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Nightmare on Elm Street 1 Reader's Theatre Script -Questions -Rubrics
Donald ThompsonHow is Nancy doing? Marge ThompsonI don’t think she has slept since Tina died. She has always been a delicate kid. Donald ThompsonShe’s tougher than you think. Any idea how she knew Rod was going to die? Marge ThompsonNo. All I know is this reminds me too much of ten years ago.Nancy ThompsonThe killer is still loose, you know.Donald ThompsonWho did it?Nancy ThompsonI don’t know who he is, but he’s burned, he wears a weird brown hat, a red and green sweater, he’s really dirty, and
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Hey You Down There Reader's Theatre Script -Harold Rolseth -Questions
When Calvin had regained his strength, he crept to the edge of the hole and looked down. Dora spoke in a timid tone as she observed her husband: Dora SpenderWhat are you going to do, Calvin? Calvin SpenderDo? I’m going to find out how far down that hole goes. Get the flashlight from the kitchen. I can't believe it. A whole pound of gold...just for a measly flashlight? They must be crazy down there. He thrust the gold bar into his pocket and opened the small piece of parchment. One side was close
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Love in the Time of Social Media- modern v. of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
The play "Love in the Time of Social Media" is a modern spin on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It features various Montagues and Capulets, Verona influencers, and digital personas and followers. The story revolves around a feud between the two families, which rages in the digital air with comments, hashtags, and a virtual affair. The Verona Timeline is projected onto the screen, displaying various posts and comments between the families. Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, emerge as a pai
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7th - 10th, Higher Education
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