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Three Scene Play Playwriting Unit for Drama, Theatre, or Acting Classes
DISTANCE-LEARNING FRIENDLY. REVISED AND UPDATED JULY 2019. This complete, three-week unit plan for teaching a simple, three-scene playwriting structure in any class has been extremely helpful to the many teachers who have purchased it over the past four years, since it debuted in July of 2015. I have been honing the lessons contained in this unit for a decade and a half in my own classes and it is a simple, fun and creative way to teach story structure, character development, and dialogue writin
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Goldilocks Behind Bars - Small Group Reader's Theater
This small group reader's theater is for 3 students. In the script Goldilocks is a delinquent who broke into the three bears home. The police have arrested her with mama bear's jewelry in her pocket and are trying to get her to confess. I use reader's theaters to encourage my students to practice fluency. It is a fun way to do something that they need. My scripts are in black and white will very little cutesy stuff so they are easier and cheaper to photo copy and not distract the readers. The on
Shoe Box Set Design Project with Rubric and Sample Project Photos!
How It Works:Students can pick any movie or television show and they are asked to recreate a scene from it inside a cardboard box as accurately as possible. They can use any materials they have access to in order to create their set design. This product comes with editable instructions for students, a sample project photo, and a rubric!
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5th - 12th
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Evolution of Dance Assignment
This is an easy all in one, one page download with a dance assignment and checklist. Simply print it off for your students, give them time, and use the same page to assess. It combines inquiry and creativity as students are required students to use space, body, time, and research skills to create an dance that shows how dance has evolved in the last 100 years. Kids absolutely LOVE this dance assignment!
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4th - 10th
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Drama Tableau Assignment - Family Vacation...GONE WRONG!
This is a great, super scaffolded, assignment that we use as our major tableau project for the TABLEAU unit of study in high school drama. It would also work well with middle school students.It involves the topic of "Family Vacation...GONE WRONG!"They have 4 classes to complete it (there's a breakdown of tasks each day), and there's a really clear breakdown of the "LOOK FOR's" for their presentations.Also included are a planning sheet and a mini storyboard, which you can collect for marks if yo
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8th - 12th
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Spanish Skits (7 total)
I've compiled all SEVEN of my favorite Spanish class skits into one file for you to purchase. You will get 26 PAGES of never-ending FUN and CREATIVITY for your students!!!! Buy this packet and receive: 1) Hansel and Gretel 2) Jack and the Beanstalk 3) Little Red Riding Hood4) The Three Bears 5) The Three Little Pigs6) Chicken Little 7) The Billy Goats Gruff8) One Rubric (which can be applied to all)You would pay individually for each of these, so I thought you'd like to save a few bucks by bu
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Top-Selling Spanish Products BUNDLE!
A Fun Group Pantomime for Middle School Drama Class
Here is the perfect first project for your middle-school actors! Students new to drama will relax when they realize that this project has easy-to-follow directions and that they are working as a group. Year after year, my students love this project!
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6th - 8th
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Performing Poetry: Creating an Oral Interpretation of a Poem
REVISED AND UPDATED August 3rd 2019!Performing Poetry is a one-to-two week long assignment that takes students through the process of finding and developing an interpretation of a poem for performance in the classroom. It contains the lesson, students handouts, a performance rubric, a student seld-evaluation, suggestions for poems to use, and several great vocal warm ups that I use extensively in my drama classes. One of the nice things about teaching students to create an oral interpretation of
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Drama Tableau Assignment - The 5 Stages of Life
This is a drama project that works really well with high school AND middle school because it's a really simple topic that they can tell through tableau very easily.I usually use this with my juniors, especially grade 9's, for our intro to tableau unit.It's around "THE 5 STAGES OF LIFE". Students get really creative with this topic! They could depict baby's first steps, graduation, marriage...the ideas are endless. (sometimes they even choose to depict birth lol)So this outlines the expectations
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6th - 12th
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Making Paper Mache Masks and Writing a Play:Arts Project with Rubrics
In this integrated arts project, students will make paper mache masks, write the script for and perform a play.
This project has three tasks.
Students first create paper mache masks. They turn these masks into the creatures of their choice - animals, monsters, aliens etc.
In groups of four, students use the characters from the masks to complete a creative writing task: Writing a play.
Students work together to write the script for a five minute play that incorporates all four of the chara
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6th - 9th
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A Cinderella Christmas: Script for a Dramatic Production-Reader's Theater
This Play Includes:A List of Characters (M/F, # Lines for each Character)A List of PropsScript 1: Teacher Copy (suggestions for scene changes, physical movements and expressions of characters)Script 2: Teacher or Student Copy (depending on teacher's preference (Lines only) May be used for Reader's TheaterA Cinderella Christmas can be performed as a dramatic production or as a Reader's Theater. There are speaking lines for 14 people as well as additional roles for Chri
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5th - 12th
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Writing and Performing One-Minute Monologues for Acting or Drama Classes
DISTANCE LEARNING FRIENDLY. REVISED AUGUST 3RD 2019! This three-week writing and performance high school level acting, drama, or theater classes asks students to write, rehearse, and perform original one-minute monologues. This unit breaks down the techniques of performing monologues and teaches students how to write effective pieces for themselves. Learning how to perform monologues effectively is one of the most valuable tools students can learn from an acting teacher. Unfortunately, it isn't
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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LIP-SYNC PROJECT - DRAMA
This activity includes a rubric and guidelines for students to perform a Lip-Sync Project. Students can be enrolled in Drama class (really any level of knowledge) or Music class.
ACTIVITY: Students choose an appropriate song, and for this rubric up to 3 people may perform one song and receive credit, if ALL performers are singing throughout the entire song.
RUBRIC: This activity also includes a rubric as to how the lip-sync will be graded on the following criteria:
1) Time / Timing (min
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5th - 12th
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Halloween Radio Show for grades 4 and 5. The Mysterious Caller
Whether you're studying the age of radio, or just looking for a fun activity for 4th and 5th graders around Halloween, try The Mysterious Caller by Mrs. Sparkles Music! There are parts for everyone in the class between speaking parts and sound effects. Practice, then record the play and play back for students. I have done this play with my students for years and they love doing it, as well as listening to their work!
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4th - 5th
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Fantastic Mr. Fox play script
I adapted Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl into a play. There are 9 roles. The play is 7 pages long. This makes a great readers theater activity or made into a performance for parents.
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1st - 4th
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Readers Theater: The Dragons Learn About Healthy Eating
I wrote this readers theater script to complement a reading unit on the story "Dragon Gets By". However, it would go perfectly with any reading unit on dragons, or a unit on healthy eating and the food groups. It's written at a primary level, particularly with second graders in mind but the content is appropriate for 1st through 3rd grade. There are seven roles so it can be accomplished in small groups or by taking turns. Or, you can combine the parts of the dragons as needed.It's a short and
"A Ride to School" by Award-Winning Playwright Kendra Thomas
A royalty free one-act play for middle and high school students by award-winning playwright Kendra Thomas. Once the script is purchased, it may be copied and used freely. Every day, students from all walks of life make their way to and from school. Each of these journeys contains a story and a hidden meaning. Sierra, a girl from a divorced family, strikes up a friendship with Jamie, who is grappling with her parents' impending divorce and the distance it's created between her and her father. Tat
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The Crucible Projects Bundle
Need a few ideas to end "The Crucible"? This bundle includes 4 projects that I have personally created and used simultaneously to diversify summative assessments in my classroom. You will receive instructions for 4 projects: One-Pager, Diorama, ACT V Extension, and Argumentative Essay. This is an amazing deal for you as a teacher. Students get a choice in their assessment and you get to shake it up in the classroom.
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9th - 12th
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No Prep Sub lesson Romeo and Juliet Comics Activity-gifted, special needs, ENG 9
No prep lesson. There is are comics templates for the entire play Romeo and Juliet, with simple text summaries, by Shakespeare Snippets. Students do not have to have read the play. Use for special needs students, younger gifted and talented students, as a last-minute substitute teacher lesson, as a test review, as a scaffolding method for Common Core standard CCRA.R.10, ESL students, as a final project.
Romeo and Juliet Comics Activity by Shakespeare Snippets is licensed under a Creative Commons
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9th - 12th
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Drama Class Open Scenes Project!
This is a wonderful project for theater students to practice their acting and character development skills. This is an open scene project (sometimes referred to as ambiguous scenes) where students have to create an entire background scene with vague language. Each scene is about 14 lines long. Short example of an open scene:A: Why are you late?B: This is why. A: Why didn't you ask for help?This project includes:-5 Open Scenes - could also be used for 5 single day assignments as well as the proj
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Improv Bundle for Drama Class!
Romeo & Juliet Balcony Scene Rewrite
This creative writing activity will allow your students to have some fun creating a parody of the famous Act II, Scene ii of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. Students choose their own setting and translate the language to fit their time period. An example is attached. An option is to have students act out their scenes for extra credit.
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8th - 12th
Readers Theater Frog and Toad The Cookies
This script has roles for excellent readers (Narrators, Frog, Toad) as well as non-readers (the birds).See my 3rd grade students perform this play below!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3JPlVmgPdg
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2nd - 4th
35 Female Monologues for Teens
Doing a monologue segment with your students? Need ideas to help them choose one? I find that students get overwhelmed when tasked with choosing a monologue from a play. They often find movie monologues or stand-alone monologues. This is my go-to list for helping them get started. 35 monologues for female teenagers (comedic, dramatic, tragicomedy, farce)List includes (but is not limited to): Almost, Maine, Agnes of God, Nuts, Our Town, Picnic, Sylvia, The Glass Menagerie, The Importance of Being
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9th - 12th
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Air Band Performance
Here's a worksheet to enable you to easily have your students plan out an Air Band performance over 7 classperiods, before they get to perform it. It's a really fun assignment and kids have always loved this one. There's lots of practice time expected.
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Not Grade Specific
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