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Common Core RL.11-12.3 scripts under $5
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Reader's Theater Script-Story + Teacher Guide)
Want to add a little fun to your study of the 14th century poem SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT? This Reader's Theater script-story adaptation designed for 10-12th graders serves as a perfect complement to the study of the original poem. Students love inhabiting the characters of the story: The naive young knight Sir Gawain, the blustering Lord Bertilak, his mischievous lady, and the mysterious Green Knight.To implement this script-story in your classroom: First, read this 30-minute script-sto
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Humorous and Ironic No Prep Reader’s Theater Play: The Cop and the Anthem
Do you need a laugh? Do your students need one, too? This fun and engaging resource was designed to entertain students as they learn. The 28-slide PowerPoint resource is a fun-filled reader’s theater version of O. Henry’s short story “The Cop and the Anthem” created for Grades 7-12. The reader’s theater play is quite humorous and contains numerous examples of irony. Colorful slides, or setting backdrops, enhance the fun as students read and/or act out each scene. The story contains themes of
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7th - 12th
Don Quixote Project based learning (PBL) & readers theater script
Wondering how to engage 21st century learners with a 17th century text? Over the years scholars have debated on the sanity of the Don Quixote character. This project combines reading, writing, acting, analysis, group work, discussion and critical thinking to answer that question. Included are readers theater scripts (1 longer introductory script and 4 more shorter ones), discussion questions, 4 rubrics, a tie in lesson on censorship/banned books, internet resources and review games. Great int
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
Much Ado about Nothing reader's theater scripts, rubric, assignments
Shakespeare made easy. Package contains 2 reader’s theater scripts, rubric, PDF presentation to acquaint students with how to do reader’s theater and what malapropisms are. Both scripts help students learn Shakespearean vocabulary and present the plot in modern day language. One(47 pages) includes more detail while the shorter, 15 page version eliminate less important scenes and characters. Check out other products and freebiesQueen Lear full production script No royaltiesWho killed Will Shakesp
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8th - 12th
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Robinson Crusoe: A Reader's Theater Script-Story
The timeless story of one man's survival, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is now available as a Reader's Theater script-story. Join Robinson Crusoe as he washes ashore on a lonesome island, salvages debris from his wrecked ship, does battle with his own despair, and attempts to build himself a home in new surroundings. In a physical, yet mental, battle, Crusoe uses faith and ingenuity to survive in a strange environment. Sometimes hailed as the first English language novel, this story is the arch
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6th - 12th
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Hearts and Hands by O. Henry: Reading and Writing Standards-Based Activities
This 43-slide PowerPoint resource contains a fun and engaging reader’s theater of O. Henry’s short story “Hearts and Hands." The activities contained in this resource were designed to be used either as a PowerPoint or as printables in a literacy center or whole group setting. The materials, ideas, and activities were designed to accommodate different learning styles and can be easily used to differentiate learning. The activities require students to analyze, evaluate, apply, synthesize, compa
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7th - 12th
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The Devil and Tom Walker reader's theater scripts, prompts and projects
Product includes 2 reader’s theater scripts breaking the short story by Washington Irving into 10 scenes. One is for whole classroom participation while the other can be used for a performance or drama club script.Reader’s theater gives students an authentic reason to read and reread as well as analyze characters in order to perform. Additionally, exit tickets, a reader’s theater rubric, the How’s and Why’s of Reader’s Theater, Jigsaw Method with Reader’s Theater Scripts, and a compare and cont
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: American Literature
John Milton's Paradise Lost: The Fall of Satan (Reader's Theater Script-Story)
This 9-page Reader's Theater script-story adapts the first part of John Milton's epic work Paradise Lost, giving students an overview of the poem's main characters and themes, as well as a taste for Milton's poetic language. Satan, decisively defeated by God, decides to build a capital in hell called Pandemonium and make it his personal mission to corrupt God's perfect creation. The poem addresses concepts of good and evil, free will, and the power of divine grace.Anticipatory Guide: Students r
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9th - 12th
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Collision Course readers theater script, rubric, prompts, projects
Collision Course (based on The Signal Control by Wadsworth Camp) adapted to play format by Kathy Applebee is an 11 page, 3 scene script for 1 female, 3 males, 3 either. Script can be used as a reader’s theater or performance piece. Run Time: 20-22 minutes. Can be done using the Jigsaw method in class. It is an ideal piece to teach conflict in literature since several types appear in the plot. The 14 pages of projects and prompts provide opportunities for the teacher to choose, the students to
Elizabeth Nesbit's The Ebony Frame reader's theater script, project and prompts
The Ebony Frame by Edith Nesbit adapted to play form by Kathy Applebee is a 10 page, 7 scene script for 4 females, 3 males, and as many extras as desired can be used as a reader’s theater or performance piece. When a man inherits a mansion, he is strangely drawn to a portrait of a woman. Who is she? What does she want?The 12 pages of projects and prompts provide opportunities for the teacher to choose, the students to interact with the text and work on various projects, writing and discussion
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7th - 11th
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Hawthorne's Dr. Heidegger's Experiment script, projects and prompts
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne adapted to play format by Kathy Applebee This royalty free, 10 page, 2 scene script for 5 male, 1 female characters, has a run time of approximately 18-20 minutes with rehearsal. Professor This one act play centers on the question: if elderly, infirm folks were restored to their youth, would they be wiser or repeat the follies of their youth? Readers’ theater is a great way to explore literature, expand vocabulary, improve fluency and comprehens
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8th - 12th
The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy script, projects, prompts
The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy adapted to play form by Kathy Applebee is a 16 page, 4 scene script for 3 females, 8 males, 4 either and as many extras as desired can be used as a reader’s theater or performance piece. During a celebration in a remote shepherd’s cottage, three strangers knock on the door seeking relief from the storm. Before the evening ends, pride, mistaken identities and what passes for justice in a rural area plagued by bad economic times will confront all of those invo
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Fahrenheit 451 Readers Theater The Parlor scene pages 88-99
Bring this significant scene to life through this readers theater guide! The Parlour Scene is the perfect scene to act out. Students have fun and emphasize just how ridiculous these women are. It's easy for them to analyze why Montag is so frustrated.Resource includes a lesson plan, a how to set up the room, 3 versions of the script: 1 without the guided questions, 1 with the stop and reflect prompts, and one for teachers, which includes extensive answer key to the stop and reflect questions. In
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Also included in: Engaging Fahrenheit 451 Activities for the beginning, middle, and end!
Plato's Republic & Cave analogy reader's theater script
Product includes an 8 scene reader’s theater that can be used with the included Jigsaw lesson plan. Scenes 1-3 primarily deal with the allegory of the Cave using an updated analogy of a Director Socrates speaking with Stage Manager Glaucon about a new idea for a darkened theater with shadow puppets. Scene 4 is about the nature of education and scenes 5-8 describes ideal leaders in an ideal cityReader’s theater gives students an authentic reason to read and reread as well as analyze characters in
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8th - 12th
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Script: The Yellow Wallpaper reader's theater, lesson plan, project +
The Yellow WallpaperProduct includes a reader’s theater script breaking the short story into 25 scenes. Reader’s theater gives students an authentic reason to read and reread as well as analyze characters in order to perform.Does sitting around doing nothing cure or cause madness? The story follows the deterioration of the protagonist's mental health: obsession with the yellow wallpaper in her bedroom and the decent from depression to psychosis. The PPT converted to .PDF includes writing prom
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: American Literature
Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown reader's theater script, projects, prompts
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, adapted by Kathy Applebee. Royalty free, 7 scene, 7-page script for 6 readers, run time 15 minutes with rehearsal. Set in colonial New England during the Salem Witch hysteria. Young Goodman Brown meets the devil and realizes many of his fellow community members, including his young wife, are actually in league with the devil. Or was it all a bad dream? Also included are “How to do reader’s theater”, “Jigsaw method of reader’s theater, and 14 pages of p
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8th - 11th
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The Great Gatsby: Reading chapter 6 through the character's perspective
If you don’t have time to read chapter 6 as a class but you need students to know the important revelations within this chapter before you get to the climax in chapter 7, then this activity is perfect. Instead of reading chapter 6 the traditional way, students will read through the events of chapter 6 through the characters' perspectives. Each character, Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Nick, has an inner thoughts page dedicated to them. Students will read through a chapter summary. Then, they'll read ea
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Also included in: Gatsby Bundle: Highly engaging activities for chapters 5-7.
Hawthorne's Minister's Black Veil reader's theater, prompts and projects
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Minister’s Black Veil in a 7-page, 8-scene reader’s theater script for 11 characters (4W, 7M). Run time approximately 15 minutes. A14 page PPT in PDF format is included with prompts, projects and a graphic organizer for comparing and contrasting the works and/or characters of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Also included are “How to do reader’s theater”, “Jigsaw method of reader’s theater, and 9 pages of projects and prompts that can be used as assignments, bell ringers or exit ti
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9th - 12th
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H.P. Lovecraft reader's theater scripts, rubric and jigsaw lesson plan
By Kathy Applebee. Included are: The Cats of Ulthar and Ashes scripts, jigsaw method lesson plan and reader’s theater grading rubric.In the tradition of Poe, these scripts present psychological horror stories that give students the opportunity to analyze a wide range of emotions in complex characters. The jigsaw method, if you choose to use it, gives students an authentic reason to read and reread and translate mental character analysis into performance before presenting and asking questions of
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: American Literature
Sherlock Holmes | The Crooked Man | Readers Theater Script | Short Story Unit
️ Embark on a literary journey with our enthralling Readers Theater Script for "The Crooked Man," a captivating short story from the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Immerse your students in the intrigue of Victorian detective work with 9 distinctive reading parts, including Narrator, Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Nancy Barclay, Miss Morrison, Crooked Man, Henry Wood, Major Murphy, and Boy. Short Story Unit Highlights: Readers Theater Script: Transport your classroom into the heart of the narrat
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5th - 12th
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Gatsby Chapter 6 Reader's Theater
Need help getting students excited to read The Great Gatsby? This product is a lifesaver! Post Covid, I've found that attention spans can only last so long, so I've created a readers theater version of a large portion of Chapter 6 in hopes to engage even the most reluctant readers.This product has turned the full text of Chapter 6 into a screenplay starting after Nick explains Gatsby's past with Dan Cody.I review the beginning of Chapter 6 with my students without a readers theater-- as well as
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9th - 12th
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The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall script, prompts, projects, rubric
Royalty free, 9 page reader’s theater script of The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall divide into 16 scenes (plus directions for teaching with the jigsaw method). Can the heir of a haunted house break a century old curse or will he succumb to the ghost's watery visits? More comedy than horror, this ghost story highlights how ingenuity and out of the box thinking solves problems.Roles for 4 male, 3 female, 1 either and as many extras as desired to round out the final scene. Stage directions are also
GREAT FOR SUBS! - NO PREP! - HIGH SCHOOL SHAKESPEARE SCENES W/ 90 POINT TEST
This is a 27 page group of scenes compiled from the works of William Shakespeare. It includes scenes from Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, A Midsummer night's dream, and Sonnet 116. This is the perfect companion to any Shakespeare unit and/or a great way to get students performing Shakespeare.Included is a 90 point assessment covering analysis, understanding, knowledge, application, synthesis, evaluation, and comparing and contrasting l
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Script: White Fang reader's theater
This 22 page script is divided into 13 scenes making it easy to assign different scenes to different small groups to practice then read aloud. Not only is this an excellent reader’s theater pre-reading activity, giving students a reason to read and re-read but it also introduces the concept of man vs. nature and how the physical and psychological elements feed off of each other.The first 3 scenes focus on Henry and Bill as they struggle against the forces of nature, primarily bitter cold and a
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: American Literature
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