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7th grade Black History Month other (ELA) scripts
Jackie Robinson readers theater baseball play
Here's a compelling play about Jackie Robinson. Over my nearly thirty years of using drama in the classroom, kids say this is one of their favorites to enact. This original script recounts the events surrounding Jackie's breaking of the color barrier through the narration of the Hot Dog Man and the Peanut Vendor at an "actual" ballgame today. (You can hear a podcast presentation of the play at ReadAloudPlays.com) Parts for from 7 to 13 actors, and suitable for reader's theater, podcast, or sta
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4th - 7th
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Sitting Down for Dr. King: Sit-ins Protests RT
Here's a powerful classroom play set during the Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins of 1960. The event is viewed through the eyes of a middle-class white boy who gets angry when the protests prevent him from enjoying his family celebration at the Woolworth. As the historically-accurate events unfold, he comes to understand the plight of the young protesters and in the end overcomes his own preconceptions to "stand" with them.Best suited for reader’s theater, podcast, or discussion-based classroom r
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5th - 8th
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School News Program Set-up and Scripts for Student Announcements
This program includes instructions on how to set up the recording, editing, and broadcasting of a daily or weekly, elementary student-made school news show. It also includes an option for audio-only intercom announcements. Everything is editable and customizable in Microsoft Word or Excel files!Product Contents:Instructions for setting up your broadcasting studio, including photos of the studio in the back of the library I worked in.Student applications and sign-up materialsStudio scripts for a
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5th - 8th
Year Long Theater Curriculum Lessons Units Plays Projects Grades 6 to 9 Drama
DISCOUNT 30%! Hey, new teacher! Are you looking for year-long theater education curriculum and help from an award winning, veteran drama teacher? These units are best taught to students in sixth grade through ninth grade, however some units work well with sixth grade. I discovered long ago that some students were enrolled in my class without their say so. Consequently, they were reluctant and disengaged from my lessons. So, I changed what I taught them and went into a different direction. L
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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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6th - 9th
Disney's Hercules Viewing Guide + Original Myth and Comparison Worksheet
Have you ever wondered how the Disney film version of Hercules stacks up against real mythology? This collection of activities gives students a chance to view the Disney film, read the original myth (through a Reader's Theater script-story), and compare the two!Often filmmakers must adapt their source material to make it more appealing to modern audiences, and Disney’s Hercules is no exception. Analyzing Disney’s choices in adapting this ancient myth will help you appreciate both the original st
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6th - 12th
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Leveled Debate Speech Writing Templates and Outline
This is for students who are completely new to debates. It is geared towards elementary students but could also be used by EFL/ESL students who are trying to learn debate. While these resources do not follow a debate fully, it helps familiarize them with a debate so that later, they can do full-on debates. There are four levels, increasing with a little more difficulty each time. The last two levels require students to come up with a rebuttal. There are two editions of each level. One is blank,
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4th - 7th, Adult Education
Readers Theater scripts: African American scientists & inventors
Nine African-American scientists/inventors (Benjamin Banneker, Mae Jemison, Patricia Bath, George Washington Carver, Dr. Mary Chinn, Lewis Latimer, Yvonne Cagle and Elijah McCoy, Patricia Bath) are featured in this collection of reader's theaters. They may be used in language arts, science or history class, adapted for a school wide program or even memorized and done, royalty free, as a stage play or video.Each interview is self-contained so students can be divided into groups to read and rehea
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Black History Month bundle (in person and remote)
Juneteenth Readers Theater
Perfect for celebrating Juneteenth! Based on actual slave narratives, Freedom for the First Time is historically-accurate, kid-friendly, and comes embedded with discussion prompts and historic photos. It’s the narrative of ten-year old Tyree during the Civil War. Tyree believes whatever her masters say. But when Tyree’s brother, Sweet Walter, arrives with a band of Union soldiers to tell her the war is over, she and her family experience their day of Jubilee, the day they know freedom for the fi
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4th - 8th
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7th Grade STAAR Reading Review: Drama
This resource was designed for use as a review for drama questions on the 7th grade STAAR Reading test. Other STAAR resources can be found in my store, BrainyCats Learning Store
BEFORE PURCHASING THIS PRODUCT, PLEASE DOWNLOAD AND READ THROUGH THE GUIDED PRACTICE SCENE TO MAKE SURE IT IS SUITABLE FOR YOUR CLASS. My students enjoyed it, but it is about a food contest where competitors try to make disgusting combinations of food, so the topic may be off-putting to some groups. The sample can
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6th - 8th
Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justice Readers Theater Play Script
A true and compelling story from the Montgomery Bus Boycott! Who can forget Claudette Colvin? Well, history did for nearly fifty years. Claudette was just fifteen when she was dragged off a Montgomery city bus for refusing to surrender her seat. Unlike Rosa Parks a year later, Claudette was convicted and then ostracized by her peers, by Civil Rights leaders, and by history. Her story has resurfaced thanks to Philip Hoose’s book, Twice Toward Justice. Use this script independently or paired it wi
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5th - 9th
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Radio Theater Play Script Bow Wow Blues Comedy Great Characters! Buffoonery
Want to have some fun? Here's a fifteen minute comedy radio play, with 15+ roles for students, written especially for the classroom! This original play was written by an award winning middle grade author. Me! Strengthen your students' listening, speaking, reading skills all at once. A one stop shop! HOW DO I USE THIS IN MY CLASSROOM? If you are a reading teacher, you could read this script to cover one of your standards or language arts teacher to study characterization and voicing Or you cou
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7th - 10th
{Are You a Text Talker?} Using the Language of Textual Evidence: ELA CCSS 1
This freebie is a quick cheat-sheet for students to remind themselves of the text-based language called for by students in the Common Core for ELA, in particular, during and while participating in teacher-directed close readings of text. These sentence starters give students a head start on how to begin their thinking and use text-based language when orally citing evidence from the text.
This product is one sheet with the option of several different backgrounds. Print full sheets or select "m
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K - 12th, Higher Education
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Letter from a Birmingham Jail reader's theater script
Letter from a Birmingham Jail reader’s theater is a 2 page script for 8 readers that explains the events leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King’s arrest and subsequent letter, summarizes the content of the letter and provides a peek at subsequent landmark events that came as a result of the civil rights movement.Also included: a rubric, reader's theater version of MLK's I Have a Dream speech, and some Black History visual writing prompts/bulletin board items to promote critical thinking.Check out
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Black History Month bundle (in person and remote)
Act It Out - Practice Skits for Idioms (Figurative Language)
Your students will love acting and watching their peers act out these examples of idioms. There are enough skits to cover the alphabet! Answer sheets are included with two options. For your early learners, use the color sets with answer sheets that identify the idiom. Students simply match the idiom to the meaning. For older students or for review, use the whole set of skits with the answer sheet that students fill in. My favorite part of this set is the handout that has other language's equival
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2nd - 8th, Adult Education
Ruby Bridges Black History Readers Theater
Ruby Bridges was headline news in 1960 as she naively trudged into the all-white William Frantz School. Her compelling story, that of a first grader integrating New Orleans Public Schools is indelible. Famed American author John Steinbeck wrote about it. Norman Rockwell painted it. And Ruby herself, nearly forty years later, revisited it in her stunning book, Through My Eyes. By pairing Ruby’s book with this lovely RT script, you’ll inspire learning that’ll stay with your students for years to c
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4th - 7th
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Katherine Johnson: Scientist:The Computer that Wore Skirts(Play)
Learn about Katherine Johnson, a physicist, space scientist and mathematician, who played a very important role with NASA’s early space missions. The movie Hidden Figures highlights the role of NASA's "computers" such as Katherine Johnson and their contributions. Part of my Ms. Bie Ografee Talk Show Series of Reader's Theater Scripts, there are comprehension questions, a Did You Know? section,a Teacher page with extensions/links and key. A great STEM biography!Additional Resources on this Topic
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5th - 9th
Also included in: Trailblazers in Science(SIX STEM Biographical Plays)BUNDLE of RESOURCES
Readers' Theater Script: Thank You, Ma'am by Langston Hughes
Students become excited about reading in readers’ theater. Introduce them to the work of this important Harlem Renaissance author engaging them using readers' theater. (The Harlem Renaissance was an African-American cultural movement that focused on literature, music, theater, art, and politics.) Great activity for Black History Month! It has 6 parts, and 4 of those are narrators. You can divide or combine those to accommodate 4-8 readers. Help your students develop fluency by allowing multiple
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4th - 7th
Readers Theater Little Girl and Winter Whirlwinds Bulgaria Folktale
Part of a Bundle Need something for after winter break? Something to celebrate spring? Low prep and easy to read or present! This Bulgarian folktale adapted into a reader's theater script with roles for 25+ students is suitable for upper elementary gifted or middle school students studying fairy tales, L. Arts or Drama class. This piece could be a one or three-day study depending upon how much effort a teacher wants to expend. Need something for a substitute that lasts several days? Pick up
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4th - 7th
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Black History Month: Complete Black History Month Program Script and Speeches
Full black history program script created by black educators including speeches spotlighting black athletes, musicians, scientists, politicians, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and poets.
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PreK - 12th
Bessie Coleman: Aviator!(Reader's Theater Script)
Use this informative Reader's Theater Script to learn about Bessie Coleman. Bessie was the first African American female pilot in the U.S. A. AND the first AMERICAN to receive an international pilot's license! Great for Black History Month in February or Women's History Month in March. Comprehension questions/extension activities, key. Part of my Ms. Bie Ografee Talk Show Series.I also have these resources you may find of interest:1. The idea to foster contributions of African Americans began wi
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5th - 9th
Also included in: African American Trailblazers(Bundle of SIX Famous African American)
Drama Reader’s Theater Inca Short Story The Magic Lake Folktale Peru Moral Story
Part of a Readers Theater Bundle The Inca folktale The Magic Lake is a dramatization of a Native American short story with roles for 20+ students and suitable for Social Studies studying indigenous people or South America, a Drama, Language Arts or reading classes. Students have fun while they strengthen their reading (fluency), speaking (diction) and listening skills (restating) while learning to work cooperatively. This product was created specifically for the classroom. This folk tale is ver
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Folk and Fairy Tales Readers Theater Scripts and Units Grades 4 to 7
Middle School Reader's Theater: Eleven by Sandra Cisneros
Looking for an engaging middle school short story to build fluency? Beloved by many, Sandra Cisneros's short story, "Eleven," has long since been a relatable and meaningful favorite. (… and it's not just because it has my name in it!)This interactive reader's theater offers two options: One for small group (5 parts) and the other with 10 parts. Bonus: The script and discussion questions make for great reading intervention or sub plans!Download Includes: - A large and small group option of the fu
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4th - 9th
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Harriet Tubman (A Reader's Theater Script)
Use this informative Reader's Theater Script to learn about Harriet Tubman, ex-slave who became the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad, a Union Spy and women's suffrage advocate. The fun/informative play uses the format of three historians as guests on Ms. Bie Ografee's talk show and the studio audience asks questions of the historians to learn about Tubman's life and contributions. Great for Black History Month,unit on the Civil War,or Women's History Month. Comprehension questio
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4th - 8th
Also included in: African American Trailblazers(Bundle of SIX Famous African American)
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