Radio Drama Unit and The Frozen Pirate Radio Play
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Sea Shanty anyone? This THREE-WEEK radio theater unit and play, nearly 80 pages in length, is suitable for high school drama classes or upper middle grade gifted classes and includes:
• Rationale for teaching radio theater
• A lesson on the history of radio theater
• Information about Foley engineers
• Three links to video clips of Foley engineers
• Student-created sound effect project
• Five links to radio play performances (some vintage and some recent)
• A mini-lesson in writing and producing radio commercials
• Links to four commercials and two acting exercises focused on sound effects
• Procedure plan to follow day by day throughout the unit
• Teacher’s questions for students
• Sound Effects quiz and teacher's key (Halleluijah!)
• How to use one's voice advice
• Sound effects suggestions for play including links
• Music suggestions for play including links
• Directing suggestions and floor plan
• A student group example of a radio commercial
• Trivia about radio theater stars
• Plus, an ORIGINAL song reminiscent of an old sea shanty with accompaniment
• A FREE radio play script, with roles for 16 students, of my adaptation of William Russell's book, " The Frozen Pirate" suitable for classroom use with roles for an average size class with NO ROYALTIES which includes sound effect and music cues all ready placed in the script for you!
The Frozen Pirate is the story of Paul Rodney, a sailor who narrowly escapes death by shipwreck and exposure in the Straits of Magellan. Surmounting that peril, he faces another: Embedded in the Antarctic ice is an ancient vessel, filled with what seem to be frozen, contorted corpses.
In my thirty-eight years of teaching drama, this radio theater unit is one of my most popular lessons with students.
Comprehensive? You bet! Created by an award-winning, veteran drama teacher of thirty-eight years.
Note: This product was updated March 11, 2021.
In addition, a teacher could use this script as a distance learning lesson. #DistancelearningTPT
THE FROZEN PIRATE (originally published in 1887) is the bizarre story of Paul Rodney, a sailor who narrowly escapes death by shipwreck and exposure in the Straits of Magellan, then faces further peril. Embedded in the Antarctic ice is an ancient vessel, a pirate ship, filled with what seems to be frozen, contorted corpses. But they are not dead.
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