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High school creative writing scripts $5-10
Write Your Own 1 Act Script - Drama Assessment *Google Drive* w/ Examples/Rubric
This assignment is a great resource to extend your students' involvement with drama! Students will create their own play script to show their understanding of drama structure and conventions. This assignment will also help students develop their creative writing skills! Students will create their own characters, outline a plot, and write a one act script for their original play. I used this as a final assessment for a drama unit. Items included in this product (all are editable Google Docs in a
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7th - 12th
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Writing a Group Play: Collaborative Creative Writing
Lesson Plan and Rationale
Rationale and Overview
One of the units that I do in my creative writing class is to have my students create a ten-minute play. I do this prior to my short story unit so that students will have had practice developing characters, working through a plot, writing dialogue, and focusing action in a narrative structure. Prior to their writing their own play, I have them write a play in groups of two or three to get them used to the process and structure of playwriting. Be
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7th - 12th
Broadcasting Scripts and Scales
I started teaching broadcasting in the 2017-18 school year. I had to design the newscast from scratch. This document contains all of the scripts that I've designed and the scales that I use to grade. Though these scripts work for my broadcasting class, you may also find them useful if your students are storytelling and designing videos. This product includes fifteen different scripts, their corresponding scales, and descriptions of each of the videos.
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5th - 12th
Create a Podcast BUNDLE - Script, Audio Template, Example Ready to Go!
Mix up your classroom practice away from boring writing tasks with this fun, easily adaptable podcast activity!Designed for upper primary or secondary students, this versatile activity can be seamlessly adapted to various subjects. If you are looking to launch a podcast club - take a look at my PODCAST CLUB BUNDLE!Included in the easily accessible zip download are the following resources:A Student Script template to assist students in structuring their podcast content effectively.An exemplary St
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6th - 9th
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Rhetorical Appeals and Persuasion - Ethos, Pathos, Logos - Commercial Project
If you are looking to assess your student's knowledge of rhetorical analysis and appeals, but don't want to assign another quiz or essay, then you HAVE to try this fun advertising commercial project in your classroom. Students will use their knowledge of persuasion and ethos, pathos, and logos to create their very own radio or TV advertisements! This project- based approach to learning will keep them engaged, and help them retain key rhetorical strategies. Students will LOVE using their creativi
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7th - 10th
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Mommy, Do You Hear That? Scary Reader's Theatre/Radio Play -Creative Writing
Mommy, Do You Hear That? Summary:One evening, Ellen and her daughter Alice are returning home from their visit to Aunt Sally and Uncle Albert's house. On the way home, Alice hears sounds all around her in the dark. Ellen calms young Alice's mind by telling her their is a logical explanation for all the sounds she is hearing at that time of the night. The one sound that Ellen does not respond to is the sound of heavy footsteps. Alice continually asks who or what could be making them, while Ellen
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Writing Process & Fundamentals Unit-BUNDLED-Differentiated, Common Core
This 5-week long Writing Fundamentals unit teaches students compound sentences, the power paragraph, and the five paragraph essay. It also teaches students how to workshop one another's pieces to help each other succeed.
**This unit includes three other products from my site:
--Differentiated compound sentences
--Writing the Power Paragraph
--Writing the Five Paragraph Essay (complete with the Writer's Workshop!)
By purchasing this bundled unit, you save over 20% than if you purchased the less
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5th - 11th
Gothic Literature Short Film Activity
Mesh Creative Writing with characteristics of Gothic Literature to engage students in the genre while also practicing elements of irony, editing, and MLA conventions. Students will create a script using characteristics of gothic lit and film a short film video. This works really well as a performance task at the end of your unit, or as a fun engaging activity at the beginning to get students excited about gothics!
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6th - 12th
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Poetry Writing - Choral Reading, Oral Interpretation, Drama Creative Writing Sub
Poetry Writing! Performance Poems are FUN! Performance Poems will get students out of their seats and speaking before the class. Performance poems will engage all students. Performance Poems may include groups of two to six students.Students will watch youtube examples and will participate in reading poems written in my English 10 class from a powerpoint presentation. The poems are color coded so that each speaker in the presentation knows what lines to read alone and what lines to read together
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6th - 12th
R.U.R: A Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Human Condition
Students will recognize R.U.R.’s contribution of the word “robot” to English and “to all the languages in which science fiction is written”
Students will connect the themes (i.e. Artificial Intelligences (AIs) intent on destroying their creators) of Karl Čapek’s R.U.R. with early science/speculative fiction (i.e. Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus) as well as modern sci-fi works (i.e. “The Machines” from The Matrix (1999))
Following rubric requirements, students will employ previously lea
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10th - 12th
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Nursery Rhymes on Trial & Mother Goose Academy (Group Scene Templates for Drama)
Order in the court! What would happen if Jack sued Jill, or Humpty Dumpty sued all the King's Men? And what happened before and after the events of a nursery rhyme? Find out by using these improvisation/drama and writing templates for 2 scene types: "Nursery Rhymes on Trial" and "Mother Goose Academy". This packet includes the following Nursery Rhyme themed activities to use in your drama and reading classes:Instructions of all the activities (you can read through it in the above preview packet)
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3rd - 12th
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Why Not Write A Play? powerpoint
This is a 12 frame power point that is an actual lesson on writing a basic script. It takes the students step by step through the process of setting up a script. It gives some practical ideas on writing and peer reading. It is an easy and delightful way to deal with script writing.
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7th - 10th
The Crucible Project - ACT V Extension
Tired of reading the same essay over and over? Looking to push for more creativity in your students' writing? This is the project for you. The ACT V Extension project displays your students' ability to analyze the author's purpose and syntax. It also drives the students' ability to write creatively and in a different format than they are accustomed to. For the teacher, you get to read something a little bit more enjoyable than your normal essay. As a bonus, it is easy to grade. Included a
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: The Crucible Projects Bundle
GOTTA GETTA JOB!, a High School, ShoutBack! Readers' Theater play
(Cast: 6; Actors: grade 11 and up; Roles: 6 male/female; Audience: grades 11 to 12) An absurd comedy, with many SFX and voice-overs. Lesson plan: 3 pages; Script: 7 pages; Run time: 16 minutes. Flesch Reading Ease = 89 A student looks for summer work: “You could milk venom from rattlers in Cactus, Arizona.”“I’d rather shoe horses in west Oklahoma.”“You couldn’t stand their aroma.”“I’ll be a deckhand on a shrimp boat, in south Mississippi.”“Those boats swell and sway, and their decks are too ti
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9th - 12th
Also included in: SHOUTBACK! READERS' THEATER, Bundle 6, scripts for High School casts
THE VERY VOCAL VEGAN, a Middle School, Readers' Theater, Radio Onstage play
(Cast: 7; Actors: grades 6 +; All roles, male or female; Audience: grades 6 > 12) An all-dialog-driven comedy, with SFX & voice-overs. Setting: radio broadcasting studio.Lesson plan: 4 pages. Script: 11 pages; Run time: 18 minutes. Flesch Reading Ease = 83% When two radio hosts interview a vegan with some extreme views, words fly and tempers flare.“I am kin with every animal. To eat one would make me a cannibal!” “I eat meat. Are you calling me a cannibal?” Will this interview end in fist
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: RADIO ONSTAGE, Bundle B, 2 Radio Scripts (comedies) for Young Actors
SHIVERING IN ORLANDO, a Middle School Readers' Theater ShoutBack! play
(Cast: 7; Actors: grades 8 and up; Roles: 1 male; 1 female, 5 male/female; Audience: grades 6 to 8) A zany comedy, with many SFX; a preposterous, winter play.Lesson plan: 3 pages; Script: 6 pages; Run time: 17 minutes. Flesch Reading Ease = 80 Orlandans, threatened with long-underwear weather, react quickly – and bizarrely – to cold fronts. As thermometer drops, panic rises. “I’ll buy shorts made of mohair, and a goose-down beanie.” “I’ll buy mink mittens, and a fur-lined bikini.” Weather alerts
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: SHOUTBACK! READERS' THEATER, Bundle 4, scripts for Middle School casts
WHO'S AFRAID OF THE I.R.S.?, a ShoutBack! Readers' Theater play
(Cast: 7; Actors: grades 8 and up; Roles: 1 female, 6 male/female; Audience: grades 8 to 12) A wonderfully, wacky comedy, with SFX and voice-overs. Lesson plan: 3 pages; Script: 9 pages; Run time: 17 minutes. Flesch Reading Ease = 94 “Drive to work?” “Yes.” “Pay tax on your street.” “I’ll walk to work.” “We’ll tax your feet.” “I’ll work from home.” “We’ll tax your heat.” “Legalized larceny!” “Three-penny thievery!” “Ace-up-your sleevery!” In this fast-paced skit, frowns soon yield to smiles.
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8th - 11th
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SENATOR HOGSNORT'S SECOND MOUTH, a High School, Readers' Theater ShoutBack! play
(Cast: 5; Actors: grade 10; Roles: 1 female, 4 male/female; Audience: grades 10 to 12) A too-true, politically incorrect, election-season comedy, with many SFX and voice-overs. Lesson plan: 3 pages; Script: 5 pages; Run time: 15 minutes. Flesch Reading Ease = 71 Who owns this mouth? The Senator’s Press Secretary. Public Information Officer, to some. Public Dis-Information Officer, to others. Liar-for-hire might be a more accurate job description. A tongue-in-cheek spoof of politics.
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: SHOUTBACK! READERS' THEATER, Bundle 6, scripts for High School casts
LAZYBONES LOUIE, a Middle School Readers' Theater ShoutBack! play
(Cast: 7; Actors: grades 6 and up; Roles: 7 boys or girls. Audience: grades 4 to 8) A lazy-paced, droll comedy, with much mime. Lesson plan: 3 pages; Script: 7 pages; Run time: 16 minutes. Flesch Reading Ease = 82 “When you go fishin’, I bet you keep wishin’, the fish never bite on your line.” “That’s fine.” “When peas need pickin’, you’re off picnickin’, hopin’ that a chicken, will eat every pea they can find.” “You must be readin’ my mind.” How lazy can a lazybones be? You’ll be surprised! Ca
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: SHOUTBACK! READERS' THEATER, Bundle 3, scripts for Middle School casts
MUSINGS ON AN OCTOPUS, an Earth Day, ShoutBack! Readers' Theater play
(Cast: 6; Actors: grades 7 and up; Roles: 5 boys or girls; Audience: grades 6 to 12) A narrated wildlife profile, in rhymed verse, with many SFX. Lesson plan: 3 pages; Script: 8 pages; Run time: 15 minutes. Flesch Reading Ease = 91 “Hello there, Mister Octopus, or Missus Octopus, or Ms. Looking close, looking low, it’s hard to tell just who you is.” In this skit we learn some odd facts about a curious creature. Some facts are fun. Some facts, disturbing. By skit’s end, you may decide against bei
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: SHOUTBACK! READERS' THEATER, Bundle 5, scripts for Middle School casts
PLAYING SECOND FIDDLE, a High School, Readers' Theater ShoutBack! Valentine play
(Cast: 6; Actors: grades 11, 12; Roles: 6 male/female; Audience: grades 8 to 12) A Valentine's Day comedy, with daft dialog and many SFX. Lesson plan: 3 pages; Script: 7 pages; Run time: 14 minutes. Flesch Reading Ease = 78 Few of us choose to be second stringers, especially in matters of the heart. Here, a backup date lets their imagination run to … maniacal mayhem!“Your life is like a play. You need an understudy to your star, a stand-in for the lead who breaks a leg.Go suck an egg! I’ll be w
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: SHOUTBACK! READERS' THEATER, Bundle 6, scripts for High School casts
SIR OLIVER PLUNKETT'S HEAD, a St. Patrick's Day Readers' Theater play
(Cast: 8; Actors: grade 6 and up; Roles: 1 male; 7 male/female; Audience: grades 6 to 9) A St. Patrick's Day comedy ... of sorts; many SFX and voice-overs. Lesson plan: 4 pages; Script: 6 pages; Run time: 12 minutes. Flesch Reading Ease = 86 This saga is set in Ireland of old – a time when heroes were knighted, and knights long remembered ... in this case, too long. Here’s a skit of battles and brave deeds. How did Sir Oliver become a Sir? Learn, through this head-throbbing tale.
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: SHOUTBACK! READERS' THEATER, Bundle 5, scripts for Middle School casts
SPEECH WRITING, LET LOGIC GUIDE YOUR PEN, a student-led lesson, public speaking
Let Logic Guide Your Speech. 2 teams (4 students each) lead this lesson. Students discuss words that weaken speeches – weasel words, wafflers, qualifiers, loaded words, fool’s facts, skewed statistics. Handouts review logical fallacies. Here's good ideas for public speaking and debating students.
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10th - 12th
ODE TO A VULTURE, an Earth Day, ShoutBack! Readers' Theater play
(Cast: 6; Actors: grades 5 and up; Roles: 6 boys or girls. Audience: grades 4 to 10) A wildlife profile, in rhymed verse, with many SFX. Lesson plan: 3 pages; Script: 6 pages; Run time: 16 minutes. Flesch Reading Ease = 85. An ecology play for Earth Day. We all serve some purpose here on Earth. Some serve with more dignity than others. This skit praises nature’s airborne garbage disposal. “Cow in a pasture, 4 legs to the sky? A banquet table. A vulture beef pie!” With an open mind – and a stron
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: SHOUTBACK! READERS' THEATER, Bundle 3, scripts for Middle School casts
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