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Drama Common Core CCRA.R.5 resources
READERS THEATER MIDDLE SCHOOL BRAIN TEASER MYSTERY SCRIPT: STOLEN LAPTOP
This grades 5-8 Readers’ Theater brain teaser mystery script gives students high-interest practice in reading aloud, comprehension and writing. Drama and ELA fun! "The Mystery of the Stolen Laptop" readers’ theater script requires your students to perform inference tasks to solve clues. The cast list is intended for 8 readers but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded, depending on how many groups you wish to have. PLOTThis funny and engaging 12 page script is about the theft
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5th - 8th
Also included in: DRAMA FUN | MIDDLE SCHOOL DRAMA GAMES & READERS' THEATER
The Ultimate A Midsummer Night's Dream Resource - Activity Workbook
The Ultimate A Midsummer Night's Dream Resource - Activity WorkbookThis is the ultimate resources for anyone teaching Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Includes a variety of whole group, and individual projects, quizzes, printables and activities as students work through the play. Easy to implement, just print out the 28 page workbook and students will enjoy working through the engaging materials!
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8th - 11th
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READERS THEATER BRAINTEASER MYSTERY SCRIPT BUNDLE
This fun 30% off Middle School high interest trio of readers' theater brain teaser mystery scripts will delight both ELA and Drama students. They will practice reading and comprehension strategies, while testing their critical thinking skills in deductive work. Get 3 scripts for the price of 2!In two of these realistic mysteries your grades 5-8 students will discover the identity of thieves. In one script a laptop is stolen and in another, a necklace. The main characters, Matt and Sophie, are M
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5th - 8th
Hamlet Unit Bundle - Differentiated & Scaffolded Lessons for Grade 10, 11 & 12
This Hamlet Lesson Bundle includes everything you need to teach Hamlet to Grade 10, 11 and 12 students! Upperclassmen are interested in this play because of its unique plot, but it also has many unique applications in discussions of grief and mental illness. Materials have been differentiated and scaffolded to teach remedial students and include challenge questions for AP® and Pre-AP® students as well. All assignments in this resource are also available as interactive Google Slides or Google For
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10th - 12th
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Julius Caesar Unit: Bundle PLUS of Activities and Abridged Readings
This complete 5+ week unit for the drama Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare can be printed, used digitally, or a combination of the two. The resource includes a print ready PDF as well as Google Drive versions (Docs, Slides, Forms, etc.) of all of the materials.Students will read abridged versions of key scenes in Acts 1-5 and summaries of the rest of each act, plus engage in high interest activities to reinforce key concepts. Also included are lessons for introducing the play, making nonficti
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10th
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The Crucible Quiz Bundle (Acts 1-4)
This bundle contains individual objective quizzes for Acts 1-4 of The Crucible. Each quiz is comprised of comprehension- and analysis-based questions to help you assess students' understandings of the play. This download includes PDFs to ensure compatibility across devices, as well as editable Word Docs that you can alter to meet your classes' needs!Each quiz also includes a section on character descriptions or quotation identifications to assess reading comprehension and understanding of charac
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8th - 12th
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Much Ado About Nothing Unit Bundle - Print and Digital Access Included!
Here is everything you need to teach Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing to 9-12 grade students! His comedy is a favorite with my students because of the eavesdropping and contrast between romantic relationships. The bundle includes the following resources: 4 core themes which students study and revisit in preparation for the test and other assessments6 slideshows of Guided Reading Notes, (one introductory and one per act)Printable student study guide for notesCreative and engaging assessments
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9th - 12th
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Abridged and Modified Macbeth Side-by-Side Text and Questions / 60 pgs
Macbeth was the first Shakespeare play I ever taught, and it helped me appreciate how much fun your students can have while acting out a drama in the classroom.However, this experience also helped me understand what aspects of a Shakespearean drama frustrate students and teachers. Some of the characters are confusing, some scenes do not advance the plot or are not school appropriate, and some of the language is dense.For these reasons, I created an abridged and modified version of Macbeth. Every
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9th - 12th
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12 Angry Men Unit Bundle | Engaging teaching materials for 9-12 grade students
These materials, based on Reginald Rose's iconic play, 12 Angry Men, helps students apply the play and its themes to the American justice system. This bundle contains the following resources: Handouts for taking notes on juror details, facts about the case, and judicial elements, such as circumstantial evidenceA slideshow introducing the play's premise, context, and themesA list of engaging assessments, including writing prompts and creative projects, such as juror reflections and art assignment
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Hitchhiker by Lucille Fletcher—Radio Play Drama Analysis & The Twilight Zone
Students will read and analyze the script of Lucille Fletcher's radio play: The Hitchhiker (also spelled The Hitch-Hiker). Have them listen to the drama on the Orson Welles Show to understand the impact that music and sound effects have on a play. Students will love to compare the audio version of The Hitchhiker to the episode of The Twilight Zone Rod Serling adapted for television. (The gender swap of the main character makes for a great discussion.)In this dreadful, ominous tale, students will
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6th - 9th
Also included in: The Hitchhiker Unit — Radio Drama by Lucille Fletcher
Fall ~ Thanksgiving Readers' Theater Script & More: Grades 3, 4, 5, & 6
Thanksgiving Readers' Theater Script & Literacy Toolkit for Grades 3, 4, 5 & 6: "Thanksgiving with Mr. Loony": From chainsaws to teddy bears to potato scavenger hunts, Mr. Loony's ideas for celebrating Thanksgiving are . . . well . . . loony.This Thanksgiving readers' theater script and the accompanying literacy activities will provide students with plenty of literacy-focused fall fun. The literacy toolkit is perfect for third-grade, fourth-grade, fifth-grade, and sixth-grade students a
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3rd - 6th
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READERS THEATER SCARY MYSTERY SCRIPT - Haunted House Mystery
This Readers’ Theater brain teaser mystery script will give Middle School students practice in reading, comprehension and writing, while having lots of ELA and Drama fun. The Mystery of the Haunted House makes your students into 'whodunit' detectives, performing inference tasks and drawing conclusions from four spooky clues. This humorous, realistic script is intended for about 9 students, but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded depending on how many groups you wish to hav
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5th - 8th
Also included in: READERS THEATER BRAINTEASER MYSTERY SCRIPT BUNDLE
The Crucible Unit Bundle (130+ pages, 200 questions) / Google Ready!
Arthur Miller's The Crucible is a complex and fascinating allegory. It's a staple in many American literature classrooms. In designing a unit for this text, I wanted to cover a variety of standards and skills students master as they read and act out the drama. If you were to purchase all of these resources, you would spend $28, but with this bundle, you save $5, which is like getting two resources for free! All together, that's 130+ pages and 200 questions! To help design the unit, I have includ
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11th - 12th
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Abridged and Modified Romeo and Juliet Side-by-Side Text and Questions Bundle
In preparing to teach freshman for the first time in many years, I cracked in to William Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet. While this is among one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, and while I enjoy teaching drama, I found the version presented in the textbook to be inaccessible.So I got to work creating a side-by-side version of Romeo and Juliet with the text on the left and guiding questions and activities on the right. In an effort to make the text more accessible for students, I eli
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9th - 10th
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Macbeth Unit Bundle (for Modern Translation)
This unit bundle is designed for teaching Macbeth using a modern translation of the text (such as No Fear Shakespeare). All products come with an answer key to help with lesson planning. Additionally, all materials are available in two forms: (1) as editable Word Docs that you can alter to best meet your students' needs, and (2) as PDFs to ensure compatibility across devices. This resource is also great for distance, online, or hybrid classrooms!The contents of the unit are Common-Core aligned,
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9th - 12th
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READERS' THEATER MYSTERY SCRIPT ACTIVITY - Mystery of the Drama Camp Thief
This funny Middle School readers’ theater mystery activity will give your students practice in reading aloud, comprehension, and writing. Making inferences and finding context clues practice AND Drama and ELA whodunnit fun- phew! The Mystery of the Drama Camp Thief is a realistic, 10 page script that will entertain your students and require them to perform inference tasks to solve clues. The cast list has 12 readers but the number of readers can easily be reduced to as few as 7. Doubling up of
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: DRAMA FUN | MIDDLE SCHOOL DRAMA GAMES & READERS' THEATER
Introducing Shakespeare Digital Escape Room
Fun and engaging with NO PREP WORK FOR YOU! - introduce your students to Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare's biography, the language he helped create, and basic information about a drama's structure, and The Globe Theatre! This digital escape room provides necessary background knowledge for students before beginning any reading of a Shakespeare play. Students are magically transported back to Elizabethan England in a quest to save Shakespeare's life by taking on a role in his play A Midsu
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: 9th / 10th Semester Unit! 4 Full units included!
AP English: Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie Unit Plan
This is a very approachable play for students to be introduced to reading dramatic literature from a literary critical perspective. It's equally challenging for an AP English or any accelerated English course as well as a remedial reading course for struggling readers. Williams' play is in contemporary language and presents characters and themes that students can relate to. I've included the stage version of the play for you to use. In this unit, students will read the play (either outside of cl
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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READERS THEATER CHRISTMAS MIDDLE SCHOOL SCRIPT: CHILLY THE SNOWMAN
This fun winter Readers’ Theater script introduces grades 5-8 students to the TRUE tale of a much loved Christmas character. A lot of fake news surrounds the legend of Frosty the Snowman - including his name - and this amusing script will reveal the real deal. In a merry morality tale, students will learn how Chilly, a cold-hearted snowman, transformed thanks to the kindness of an elf child. This humorous 10 page script (+ questions and seasonal activities) will give students practice in reading
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5th - 8th
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The Crucible Assessment Bundle (4 Quizzes, 25 MC Questions, 10 Writing Prompts)
Arthur Miller's The Crucible is a complex and fascinating allegory. It's a staple in many American literature classrooms. In designing assessments for this text, I wanted to cover a variety of standards and skills students master as they read and act out the drama. And I wanted to slowly build students up to the test, so I first built 4 quizzes to help students practice skills and standards. The quizzes can be used as traditional formative assessments, as reading questions, or (and this is how I
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11th - 12th
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Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Scene 2 Close Reading Worksheet for Google Drive
Help high school students go beyond basic reading comprehension and support the development of critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this close reading worksheet covering Act 2, scene 2, of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet. An answer key is included. Materials are made for Google Drive, offering self-grading functionality and automated student feedback. (Alternatively, a printable version is available.)By completing this activity, students will:Identify what the
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9th - 12th
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Juneteenth Readers Theater
Perfect for celebrating Juneteenth! Based on actual slave narratives, Freedom for the First Time is historically-accurate, kid-friendly, and comes embedded with discussion prompts and historic photos. It’s the narrative of ten-year old Tyree during the Civil War. Tyree believes whatever her masters say. But when Tyree’s brother, Sweet Walter, arrives with a band of Union soldiers to tell her the war is over, she and her family experience their day of Jubilee, the day they know freedom for the fi
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4th - 8th
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Romeo & Juliet Workbook Bundle - 8th 9th 10th Grade ELA
In this Romeo & Juliet workbook bundle for 8th, 9th and 10th Grade ELA students, you will receive workbooks for all acts of Romeo and Juliet. These workbooks are chunked together to review highlights like figurative language, dramatic features like foil and comic relief, and quote and character analysis. Chunking material in this manner allows students to become engaged, review the highlights of the play, and then branch out into critical thinking skills. What's Included in this Romeo &
The Crucible One Pager Project
Have your students share their understanding of the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller with this one-pager activity.Students will imaginatively blend their written ideas with colorful images based on information from the text.With this one-pager reading comprehension project, students will analyze the literature by determining theme, tone, symbolism, characterization, and more.Students' artwork make for unique and creative analyses of the literature and also make great classroom decor!Included i
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9th - 12th
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