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12th grade U.S. History scripts
National Security Council Simulation / Cuban Missile Crisis (U.S. History)
U.S. History: National Security Council Simulation / Cuban Missile Crisis. Here is the World Scenario: The Soviet Union, the global rival of the United States, has moved Intermediate and medium range ballistic missiles with unclear capabilities to its ally country Cuba, a small island nation located 100 miles from the eastern coast of the continental United States....Students always remark how this simulation is one of their favorite activities of the year!!! You hold the World Scenario, stude
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Cold War Unit Bundle (World History)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Reader's Theater Script-Stories)
Looking for a fun way to add a little imagination to American Literature? Why not try one of American Lit's most underrated writers, Washington Irving? Irving spun legend, humor, and social commentary together into his own unique storytelling style.This collection features adaptations of Washington Irving's three most popular stories:The Legend of Sleepy HollowRip Van WinkleThe Devil and Tom WalkerEach script-story is approximately 30-50 minutes and intended for use with students from 6th-12th g
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature Teaching Resources Bundle
The Scarlet Letter (Reader's Theater Script-Story Collection)
Have you ever wanted to teach The Scarlet Letter but couldn't find the time? While preserving the author's literary style, this 52-page text adapts Hawthorne's classic novel into four 45-minute Reader's Theater script-stories. Allowing the students to inhabit classic characters like Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale brings the literature to life!
Also included with the script-stories is a teacher guide for each of the four parts, complete with relevant background information, plot summary,
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature Teaching Resources Bundle
WWII D-Day Experience/Simulation (Normandy, France June 6, 1944)
In this activity your students will experience the chaos of WWII's D-Day invasion of Normandy, France. Students will learn a brief history of the invasion while participating in physical and mental challenges. This is a fully immersive experience, with movement, video, battle sounds, enemy fire, and scripts included. A fabulous open-and-go activity that students will be talking about long after the class has ended. This experience runs roughly one hour.
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8th - 12th
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Game: Who Shot Prospector Pete (Murder Mystery activity)
Prospector Pete is found shot in the back at his mining claim with a peck of people possibly involved including his wife Betsy, the Raindance Kid, Hoss Steel, Lily Lang Tree (or is it Land Tree?) and many more. Jump right in as a suspect and a detective and figure out who did it.
Mystery party games are an engaging alternative to hum drum usual fare and make wonderful drama activities. Add spice to that theater class, family reunion, retreat or birthday/anniversary party. Acting experience and
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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US History for AP/College(52 PPT/750 slides+Texts+Rec.Videos) by PhD in History
Dear colleagues,This is my best course, which is suitable for both AP classes and university lectures. I hope it will equip your students with everything they need to know about US History.The course includes:52 high-quality presentations with over 750 slides (concluding with the George W. Bush administration)39 .docx files containing concise information for your classes. These texts are based on my lectures, organized in a more coherent manner with the help of AIA file with links to more than 1
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
The Salem Witch Trials (Reader's Theater Script-Story + Reading Guide Questions)
The Salem Witch Trials are one of the most bizarre and confounding events in American History. For no apparent reason men, women, and children suddenly started making wild accusations that their neighbors were servants of the Devil, who were supernaturally cursing them. In the ensuing hysteria more than 200 people were accused of witchcraft, and many died. But what were the roots of this hysteria?This historically-accurate dramatization of the real-life hysteria surrounding the Salem Witch Trial
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: American Literature Teaching Resources Bundle
Reader’s Theater Pack: Factors Influencing Westward Movement
Reader’s Theater Pack: Factors Influencing Westward Movement
This Reader’s Theater Pack features 6 scripts that focus on the factors that influenced western migration during this period of US expansion.
Factors focused on include:
Population growth in eastern states
Availability of cheap, fertile land
Economic opportunity (including the Gold Rush)
Cheaper and faster transportation (trains, steamboats, canals)
Knowledge of the Overland Trails (Santa Fe and Oregon Trails)
Manifest Destiny
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4th - 12th
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Reader's Theaters Plays - 9-Pack Bundle, US History 1600-1860
My reader's theaters plays have been a hit in my classroom and on TPT. Enjoy the fruits of my labor by bundling the first 10 plays of the early American history period, from American beginnings through the Antebellum period. Here are the reader's theaters you'll get in this package:1 - First Americans Cross Bering Strait: a fun skit about our first indigenous people ($3)2 - Stroke of a Penn: William Penn's founding of PA ($1.50)3 - Sons of Liberty: imagining Boston's finest as a biker gang ($3)4
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5th - 12th
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Play 1899 Newsies Strike, Summaries of 8 famous strikes, Questions, Labor Unions
Play on 1899 Newsies Strike
Current Child Labor Laws
Summaries of 8 famous strikes by Labor Unions (Haymarket, Coal, Pullman, RR, NFL, etc)
Questions
Labor Unions
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8th - 12th
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The Salem Witch Trials Guided Reading Play Scripts
Set of 5 Guided Reading Play Scripts (plus quizzes) on The Salem Witch Trials.
Boredom, over-active imaginations and a certain flair for amateur dramatics - all fatally combined to produce one of the cruelest travesties of justice in U.S. history. 19 hangings of complete innocents, labeled as witches ... by children. Who, or what, was to blame? Sift through some very suspect evidence and draw your own conclusions, from this set of guided reading play scripts, written by Sue Russell, covering th
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4th - 12th
A Virtual Field Trip to Colonial Williamsburg
This PowerPoint presentation takes the viewer on a virtual field trip to Colonial Williamsburg, a reconstruction of the Virginia settlement that played an important role leading up to the American Revolution. A complete script is included. No other teacher preparation is required.
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5th - 12th
Reader's Theater Play - The Shot & Plot: Abraham Lincoln's Assassinaton
The tale of John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Abraham Lincoln is a difficult one to digest. It was multifaceted and complex, but this 6-page reader's theater helps bring that to life and simplify the raw emotion and anger behind assassinating quite possibly our nation's greatest President.
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Reader's Theaters Plays - 9-Pack Bundle, US History 1600-1860
Paul Revere's Midnight Ride (Reader's Theater Script-Story)
This dramatized yet historically-accurate Reader's Theater script-story presents major events in the life of Paul Revere beginning with his childhood and leading up to the American Revolution. Beginning life as a silversmith, Revere finds himself entangled in the growing unrest in colonial Boston. Events featured in the script include: Sons of Liberty meetings at the Old North Church, Revere's spy missions as a courier, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and Paul Revere's famous midnigh
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature Teaching Resources Bundle
Declaration of Independence Break Up Letter
Free break up letter text and how I use it to trick my class and engage them in the Declaration of Independence. A letter is found on the floor written by hand. The teacher reads it to the class without naming names. The next day it is revealed that this is actually a letter from the American Colonies sent to King George.OTHER FREEBIES* VOCABULARY GRAPHIC ORGANIZER* NO BS HISTORY CLASSROOM POSTERSCIVICS RESOURCES* CITIZEN GAME QUIZ/GAME* POLITICAL HERITAGE QUIZ/GAMECOOL CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS
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5th - 12th
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Last of the Mohicans (Reader's Theater Script-Story Collection)
It's time to rediscover America's first literary success: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. With the creation of Natty Bumppo/Hawkeye, the world-weary woodsman, Cooper created a new literary archetype: the rugged frontiersman. The novel addresses complex themes like the disappearance of the native way of life, racism, and cultural blending.While preserving the author's literary style, this 73-page text adapts Cooper's classic novel for modern audiences through four 45-minute Re
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature Teaching Resources Bundle
Reader's Theater Play - How The Scopes Monkey Trial Altered America
The Scopes Monkey Trial is one of the most misunderstood events in American history. What we only refer to with a poking, prodding stick (because it deals with evolution) actually turned the United States's political sphere upside down, thanks to the bombastic debate and trial levied by Charles Darrow and William Jennings Bryan.
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5th - 12th
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The Red Badge of Courage (Reader's Theater Script-Stories + Reading Guides)
Penning the ultimate novel of the Civil War, Stephen Crane takes us into the mind of a soldier. The Red Badge of Courage portrays one youth’s struggle against himself as he fights his first battle. Because of its psychological realism, the novel still resonates with young readers today. This two-script adaptation is perfect for teachers who need an engaging way to exposure their students to the events of the novel. These script-stories can be used in conjunction with the original text to increas
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature Teaching Resources Bundle
If WWI Was a Bar Fight - Classroom Skit!
I first saw this concept in a funny meme - I'm not 100% sure who to credit with the original, but I wrote this script based off of that funny meme I saved on Pinterest years ago. This activity is SO fun; it places WWI in a fun, trendy new pub; the Eurobar, in June of 1914. Archduke Ferdinand's assassination is translated into the spilling of a drink, the Versailles treaty magically becomes America ruffling through an unconscious Germany's pockets to buy drinks for all his allied friends, and the
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7th - 12th
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Slavery and Freedom: Frederick Douglass and African-American Folktale Scripts
All students should study the institution of American slavery. Learning the ugly truth about slavery, its methods, its victims, and its perpetrators will prevent its resurgence in the future. As one of our finest Americans, Frederick Douglass proved in his life story, education is the enemy of slavery. Two of the script-stories in this collection dramatize selections from Frederick Douglass's autobiography Life of an American Slave. A third script-story intertwines authentic experiences on a sla
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature Teaching Resources Bundle
Presidents Readers Theater Bundle for Middle and High School
Presidents Readers Theater for Middle and High. Three short plays, with 10 presidents. McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, FDR, Truman, and Eisenhower. 1901 - 1961. 33 written questions for the class. Entertaining, back-and-forth and fact-based. Covers key events of each president. By teacher and playwright John Glass.
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8th - 12th
1950s America TV Sitcom Skit | Nuclear Family | U.S. History | Grades 7-12
This is a fun and cooperative activity in which students create and act in a skit depicting a “typical” 1950s nuclear family. Students begin the activity by watching film clips about the 1950s nuclear family and then work in groups to complete a skit demonstrating their knowledge of life in America during the 1950s. This is a perfect addition to your postwar America unit. As a wrap-up activity, students will watch an episode of a 1950s sitcom, “Ozzie and Harriet” and answer a series of question
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9th - 12th
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Readers Theater Bundle American Presidents
Presidents Readers Theater for High School. Two ten minute plays, with 7 presidents. McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. 1901 - 1929. 13 written questions for the first play, 10 questions for the second. Entertaining, back-and-forth and fact-based. Covers key events of each president. By teacher and playwright John Glass.
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8th - 12th
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (A Reader's Theater Script-Story)
This stand-alone script-story gives students an introduction to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Since it dramatizes the first portion of Twain's novel (including the famous fence whitewashing scene), it would serve as a great introduction to reading the novel in class. In my own classroom I read this script before my students read Huckleberry Finn since the script-story introduces important characters like Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Aunt Polly, and Sid, which will all be referenced in Hu
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature Teaching Resources Bundle
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