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Middle school Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa drama thematic unit plans
12 Angry Men - Twelve Angry Men Complete Drama Unit Teaching Package
Everything you need to start a 3-week drama unit tomorrow!12 Angry Men is a short but powerful play that will hook your students' attention and keep them engaged throughout the unit. Students will build background knowledge about the legal system, study character development and theme, and make real-world connections to text.This fun, fresh product comes with an in-depth teacher's guide and suggested timeline for each day's activities making your lesson plans a breeze!What is included in this re
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7th - 10th
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Twilight Zone Teleplay Complete Unit Pack
This is a fantastically engaging and complete unit for your middle schoolers for Rod Serling's teleplay The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. This is material to help you teach the script from The Twilight Zone television series. The text of the teleplay is not included, as it is not in the public domain.You will get the following materials:Pre-reading Group Questions/Discussion PromptsPre-Reading Vocabulary and Extension Activities with KeyCharting Plot: Two Types of Charts with KeyLiterary Ele
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6th - 8th
Advent Booklet - Complete Advent Unit (53 pages)
This 53 page booklet is sure to be an asset to your Advent activities. This booklet explores the themes of Hope, Peace, Joy and Love. The booklet includes an introduction to Advent and provides week long activities for EACH weekly them. It also includes some additional activities including a word search, poems, etc. I was not able to include the whole booklet in the preview - It was too large and it would take a long time to load. I hope that you will consider this unit - it is sure to prov
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3rd - 6th
Christmas Activities - Reading Passages - Story Elements - Narrative Writing
DIGITAL & PRINTABLE - Upper Elementary December Christmas Passages that are CCSS aligned with the ELA literature and narrative writing standards. We've added a Google Classroom Option to our popular product. The unit focuses on the reading skill of story elements of inferring character traits, Plot Development, and Theme. This unit is great to use for teacher observation because of the included lesson plans and rigorous activities. You will keep your students engaged during this challengi
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4th - 6th
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Play Writing and Drama Pack
Teaching Drama can be so BORING! Memorizing terms and reading Drama passages then answering multiple choice questions just isn't how most of our students learn. If you are looking for something more engaging, give this play writing pack a try! Everything you need to turn your student's into mini-playwrights is included! Included are options for brainstorming and planning out dialogue and characters, design Playbill covers and sets, and selecting settings.
After writing plays, students can perfo
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3rd - 6th
Winter Project Based Learning - Design a Gingerbread House For Sale Math
This winter project based learning unit combines gingerbread house math and writing into one fun and engaging gingerbread house for sale activity! Perfect to keep students engaged in learning around the holidays and winter break.Please click on the green PREVIEW button above to see more details of what is included in this resource.This writing and math pbl unit is broken up into 6 sections:1- Design Your House - students research gingerbread house designs, purchase supplies and calculate the tot
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4th - 6th
"Dear Santa" Letter - Persuasive Writing Essay for Christmas
This is "Dear Santa - Persuasive Writing Essay" perfect writing project to do with your class during the month of December. It is common core aligned for grades 4-6 and is a great way to teach your persuasive, opinion, and argumentative writing standards. It will help teach students how to write a 5 +1 Paragraph Essay.This topic will be fun for your students and will help them be excited and about writing persuasive essays! In here you will find everything you need to help walk your students thr
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3rd - 6th
Christmas Comedy Drama Bundle - four Christmas plays
Christmas Comedy Drama Bundle is a collection of four original humorous plays that are suitable for reader's theater, classroom skits, or as a performance for a large audience. In The Christmas Rush, many last-minute shoppers hit their frustration point as they wait in a checkout line at a store behind an easygoing, unhurried shopper, who holds them up with his unintentional delays. In The Truth of the Matter, several characters pass along a story about a man who slipped and fell while out colle
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5th - 8th
Winter Holidays Around the World
This is a collection of 15 reading passages perfect for close reading. Each passage covers a different holiday celebration from various cultures around the world. Also included are graphic organizers to help with comprehension. The activities hit several informational reading standards as well.Holidays included:MawlidSt. Nicholas DayBodhi DayDhanu SankrantiSanta Lucia DayLas PosadasHanukkahWinter Solstice FestivalsNochebuenaChristmasBoxing DayKwanzaaNew YearEpiphanyLohriGraphic Organizers:Compar
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5th - 7th
A Midsummer Night's Dream Unit Plan With Lesson Plans & Activities, 12 Resources
Use this A Midsummer Night's Dream unit plan to draw students into Shakespeare's famous play. This 4-week unit plan includes lesson plans, bell ringers, activities, questions, characters, quotes, final projects, an essay and more. Students spend the first two weeks on an in-depth study of A Midsummer Night's Dream filled with engaging activities. Week 3 is spent on creative final projects and the final week is spent on the complete writing process for a literary analysis essay. All the prep work
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8th - 12th
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The History of Christmas-The Nativity Comprehension Packet
This is the newest addition to my History of Holiday packets. This packet was created to go along with the Christmas Story about the birth of Jesus. It includes: •The History of the Christmas Story: Read the bible passages and/or the kid-friendly translation to your students to teach them about the history behind the First Christmas.•Comprehension Questions: See what your students remember by asking them comprehension questions about the passage. Available with and without picture choices.•Chris
Grades:
1st - 8th
Also included in: The History of Holidays Bundle
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Novel Study Unit
This exciting and colorful unit includes 60 pages of lesson plans and activities to use with your classroom novel study of Barbara Robinson's The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Activities included are aligned with 4th grade Common Core Standards.
The Herdman children will have your students gasping in shock and rolling with laughter throughout this fun and playful Christmas story. It's a great way to keep your students engaged while counting down the days until winter vacation!
Originally develo
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4th - 7th
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Theater Sub Plan! Drama Costume Design Lesson Fairy Tale Characters Fantasy
Bundle Fairy tales are very popular at present. Why not capitalize on your theater students' interest in them with this costume design lesson? Students can really let their imaginations soar and explore different settings (modern, the fifties, western, apocalyptic, furturistic, etc.) for their own costume designs while learning sound instruction created by a very knowledgeable and experienced veteran teacher. No gimmicks here. Even great for a substitute to teach! This two-day low prep lesso
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6th - 9th
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Drama Class Theater Curriculum Middle School Vol. 1 Acting Improvisation Plays
30% Discount This drama curriculum bundle is perfect for the new theater teacher or those looking for unique and innovative resources. This bundle with 13 products (280 pages) has everything you need to teach a drama class for a semester, quarter or month (depending upon how many times you see your students.) I created these lessons for my own classes and used them for many years. I've included a scope and sequence to this bundle for FREE!Included in each product:List of ContentsLetter to Tea
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Teaching Dramas in the Elementary Classroom | Digital + Print
{UPDATED PRODUCT 1/2021 - DIGITAL VERSION NOW INCLUDED + ADDITIONAL RESOURCES!} This guide takes the guess work out of teaching dramas and plays in the elementary classroom! It is very simple to use and perfect for getting your students to think critically about dramas and plays in a creative, unique way! It supports analyzing theme across various texts and genres and includes a wealth of materials to teach important dramatic elements, like stage directions, scene changes, and dialogue. PLUS -
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3rd - 6th
December Adapted Books (Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Santa) | Special Ed
8 interactive DECEMBER thematic books with 2 levels -- perfect for early learners!Celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa with your students with this set of Holiday Adapted Books! Includes holiday counting books (1-10) and lessons about Santa, dreidels, and holiday vocabulary! Each book includes a matching component on each page to keep students engaged and interacting with their work. Perfect for special education, early childhood, ELL, homeschool, and speech therapy.*** You SAVE when you p
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PreK - 6th
Also included in: Adapted Books Bundle | Year-Long | Seasonal | Special Ed
Radio Theater Unit Drama Class Aligns CCSS 7.7 Audio Storytelling Foley Artists
Part of a Bundle One of my most popular products! Get in on the excitement for your classroom, too! Got reluctant students in your classroom? Did you know that podcasts are the newest home for radio theater? Try radio theater--your students will find a place for themselves to participate in this unit! It is my radio theater unit ONLY. No script is provided. This TEN DAY unit, 43 pages in length, however you can use as little or as much as you like. It is suitable for middle and high school d
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7th - 9th
Broadway Musical Theater Unit Study Guide Wicked Grades 7 to 9 Plot Themes Songs
Part of a Bundle Elfaba and Glenda the Good Witch anyone? This one to five day lesson and study guide concerns the Tony award-winning Broadway musical Wicked! Need something different? Pick up this one. This unit contains enough material for four days. Students learn about the musical's origin, creative team, songs, trivia, plot and end with an enrichment activity or assignment which can be completed individually or with partners. This lesson can stand alone or be combined with one of my Famou
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Halloween Drama Class Units, Scripts and Lessons Bundle!
Broadway Musical Unit Study Guide The Wiz African American Futurism
Part of a Bundle Let's ease on down the Road with the Broadway Tony Award Winner The Wiz a fantastic futuristic African American version of The Wizard of Oz. The Wiz is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of contemporary African-American culture. This two or three day lesson (65 pages) and study guide about this Broadway musical can stand alone or be combined with one of my Famous Artist Biographies (Lin Manuel Miranda) or other musical less
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Drama Units Broadway Musicals Wicked The Wiz Spongebob Christmas Story
Winter Bucket Drumming
This is built from one of my favorite teaching units – bucket drumming karate, and my desire to bring it to a winter concert setting! The students love showing off their skills, and so do I! My favorite thing is to use popular winter and Christmas songs that I already own and have the students play along! Each song features instructions as well as lyrics and suggestions for how to play along from start to finish (and passing actions if appropriate), followed by a practice rhythm slide for stu
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K - 8th
Holiday / Christmas Social Skills, Pragmatics, Manners game Speech therapy
After my Thanksgiving version of this activity was fairly popular amongst my students, I decided to make a Christmas / holiday-themed version. This activity is great for students on the Autism spectrum and students with social deficits to practice manners and general social problem solving. To make it more fun for them, I came up with a simple game format (please see below).
This version has 36 different scenarios related to the holidays, present etiquette, and general manners.
CONTENTS (all P
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K - 8th
Intro to Technical Theatre Drama Entire Unit
All of the materials I use to teach Intro to Technical Theatre in 9-12 Drama or Theatre Arts 1 classes. This will save you so much time! =) This is the very first unit I teach in Theater Arts 1.
This download includes:
Beautiful Tech Theatre Powerpoint
Fun Stage Toss Review Game
Easy Magazine Face Scene Playwriting Project
Printable Teacher Notes (including links to extra resources)
Printable Student Notes
Printable Guided Notes
Printable Theatre Etiquette Handout
Printable Theatre Organization
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6th - 12th
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Drama Lesson Costume Design Super Heroes Middle School Plus Creative Writing
Part of a Bundle Who doesn’t like super heroes like Superman? Or Wonder Woman? This two-day lesson on costume design is focused on their unusual costumes. Save time by using this resource all ready for you. It gives your students an opportunity be costume designers and learn all about the profession. Suitable for students in grades 6 to 7, but younger students will enjoy it too. The product is broken down for two class periods, although it could be used for a one day exploration of the subject
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Drama Lesson Super Heroes| Costume Design| Storytelling and Movement
Script Writing Unit Plan
This is a detailed unit plan for a Language Arts 7-9 class or a Drama class. This unit focuses on script writing, scaffolding skills from Radio Plays to Reader's Theatre to adapting children's stories into original scripts. This is a great way to expose students to a variety of texts.This product includes: - Detailed lesson plans are included for 12 lessons- Teacher notes- Warm up game options- Comprehension reading with questions and answer key- Rubric, checklists, and peer assessments
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Grades:
7th - 9th
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