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Common Core SL.11-12.1 scripts
Reader's Theater Script | Horror Urban Legend | Foreshadowing Lesson
Your students will absolutely love this script and accompanying lessons! Based on the famous Japanese urban legend "The Girl in the Gap," this script is written specifically for teen enjoyment and English Language Arts CCSS. This product is also available in my bundle Teen Readers' Theatre Bundle Featuring 3 Original ScriptsThe product includes lots of tips and tricks for bringing readers' theater to life in a middle or high school classroom, a mini-lesson on the types of foreshadowing, an origi
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle: 4 Scripts and Lessons, Middle & High School
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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Connect & Thrive: A teen workbook for social problem solving in high school.
Get in the social game with this interactive workbook! It is designed to help autistic teens develop and refine their social skills in a variety of real-life situations. Through role-playing scenarios, reflection prompts, and journaling exercises, teens will learn effective communication strategies, build empathy, and gain confidence in navigating social interactions to connect and thrive. The hope is that the reader can use the scenarios as a guide or practice then move that practice into solvi
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7th - 12th
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Gossip and Rumors /Social Skills /Reader's Theater /Social and Emotional Lesson
Has the rumor mill hit your classroom? Do you find that you are dealing with the gossip drama? Then turn to one of history's great philosophers, Socrates. The story about the three sieves is something we can apply to our lives and our students social and emotional learning. Before you gossip or pass on a rumor, ask yourself whether it is true, kind or necessary. Often we pass on gossip we’ve heard to keep the conversation going or talk negatively about somebody we know. We should focus on “uptal
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Bundle: A Happy Classroom (Developing Social and Emotional Growth)
Student-Led Round Table Discussions
This unit provides resources to teach students how to facilitate their own “round table discussion” focused on research they have been doing in your class. Through this process, students will exercise and showcase reading, writing, language, and most prominently speaking and listening skills. They also build confidence to communicate well in the workplace. All resources are modifiable for middle school, high school, or college level instruction. We have included several resources (Google slides
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Capstone for All course
The Grump Who Stole Christmas: A Mystery Party Kit
The Grump Who Stole Christmas: A Mystery Party Kit, murder mystery party, mystery dinner game, new years game, xmas murder mystery, xmas**Also available as a Virtual Party. See Below**Great for family parties, holiday parties, church groups, social clubs, and more!All the Wu’s who lived down in Yule Ville liked Christmas a lot, but the grump who lived above Yule Ville did not. Some doctors did testing; each organ one and all, and they found that his heart was two sizes too small. “Hypoplastic Le
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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William Carlos Williams "This is Just to Say" & Kenneth Koch | Satire & Tone
Looking for an engaging poetry lesson to get your students excited about critical thinking and enjoying poetry writing? William Carlos William’s poem “This is Just to Say” is a deceptively simple poem about the everyday experience of taking the last delicacy from the fridge. It’s also a poem about family relationships, communication, guilt, and family life. And it's a great poem to easily and quickly teach tone, diction, and structure.The creative writing prompt inspired by Kenneth Koch's poe
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9th - 12th
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Discussion Moves Sentence Stems Desk Mat
Looking to enhance student conversation in your classroom? I created the following Discussion Moves Sentence Stems Desk Mat to support my students when discussing and sharing ideas. You can print these out and laminate them to add to your desk as a go-to reference for students. The moves include: State an idea / Make a point Build on ideas and ElaborateChallenge ideasUse evidence and examplesSynthesize main pointsParaphrase and clarify
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6th - 12th
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American Lit. semester 1: The American Dream 18 weeks
Save time and 50% of individual pricing ($26) with this American Literature semester 1 bundle. It contains reader’s theater scripts, 5 choral readings (poems), lesson plans, projects, Power Points, rubrics, printables and instructions on how to use the resources within. Several activities and assignments combine two or more authors or pieces for comparison and analysis. While not strictly in chronological order, the units focus on a themes around the American Dream: Puritan and Colonial influenc
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8th - 12th
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Shakes Fear haunted house ghost walk PBL scripts and prompts
Shakes Fear in the Dark is a project based learning opportunity for students to plan a haunted house or ghost walk that features some of Shakespeare’s spookiest characters and scenes.This immersive experience presenting the sinister side of Shakespeare has his creepiest characters guiding audiences in small groups to meet Lady Macbeth, the ghost of Hamlet’s father, a crazed Romeo breaking into the Capulet crypt and other characters.Each group’s haunted guide will share his or her story of betray
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7th - 10th
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Acting Out One-Liners from Movie, TV, and Novels to Learn Persuasive Speaking
Teach your students to be intentional about how they use public speaking techniques (pitch, volume, pauses, gestures, etc.) using this engaging, funny and fun acting activity! This resource comes with 48 different one-liners from movies, TV, novels, etc. and will help students reflect on the meaning of the line before annotating the line with at least three delivery techniques. Then - present!
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: BUNDLE: Public Speaking Lecture, Activity and Warm-Up Series!
French Revolution: Poster Project & Reader's Theater - PAIR PACK - CCSS
This is a pair pack of our two most popular products for the French Revolution: The French Revolution Protest Poster Project and the Reign of Terror Reader's Theater. Both pair well together to engage students in activities that immerse them in the content with creativity and fun. The French Revolution Protest Poster Project is a project-based 3-day Common Core lesson plan that covers the key grievances on the road to the French Revolution. The end result is a fun simulation in which groups of
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8th - 12th
Age of Anxiety readers theater or performance script, projects and prompts
The Age of Anxiety readers theater or performance 13 page script, 15 pages of projects and prompts. In the future, children are given an “unworry” drug until age 17. Then they must choose to enter the City, filled with things to worry about or remain Permanently zoned out. Which will Justin choose? Characters: 5 male, 3 female, 7 either plus non-speaking extras. Run time: 22-25 minutes Shake things up a bit by introducing topics with this sci-fi reader’s theater script that leads into discussion
The Knowledge Machine readers theater and performance script, projects, prompts
The Knowledge Machine – 15 page script, 21 pages of prompts and projects. What if a machine could “teach” any subject in 10 minutes? What would you choose? Would the convenience outweigh the drawbacks? Explore how the brain learns and the effects of unhealthy sleep habits. Characters: 3 male, 3 female, 3 either plus extras. Makes for easy, low prep sub plans using the pre-reading material and read through script. Rubric and Jigsaw lesson planning materials included. Shake things up a bit by intr
Pushkin's Queen of Spades script and more
Royalty free 24 page reader’s theater script of A. Pushkin’s Queen of Spades divided into 14 scenes with 15 speaking parts (some can be doubled). An easy way to explore Russian literature, characterization and improve verbal prosody. A miserable, penniless ward of a countess looks for a way to find happiness. A gambling, get rich quick schemer becomes obsessed with a rumor about a winning three card combination and will stop at nothing to find out the secret three card combination. Can the gh
Plays with Strong Females
The Nonsense of Neutrons - 3F, 2M, 45-50 minutesThe year is 1995, and fanfare and hype over the 50th anniversary of World War Two are all around. But Shannon, a college student, is carrying a long-time rage over her family’s distant connection to the war. Her friends encourage her, warily, to stay positive amidst all of the buzz. And gradually . . . the pending campus symposium of aging nuclear physicists proves pivotal to this play’s climax. John Calhoun and a Thief 2F, 1M, 30 minutesKicked
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9th - 12th
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Bundle: Shakespeare's Lear
Shakespeare made easy.
You get a 20-page reader’s theater version of King Lear, 33 graphics intensive Power Point with writing prompts, graphic organizers and art work based on the play offer visuals to help activate background knowledge, plus a full production script of the adaptation Queen Lear. (PDF and Power Point are included in Zip folder) Run time without intermission approximately 56 minutes
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Shakespeare bundle
American Literature Bun
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8th - 12th
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Printable Discussion Stems
Encourage your students to build on, challenge, question and introduce new ideas into classroom discussions. Print out these cut out cards for students to use when having discussions, or have student keep them in their desks for any conversation!Learn more about student-led discussions atwww.parlayideas.com
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3rd - 12th, Staff
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Panel Discussion Series pack
The Panel Discussion Series is an annual event in my Grade 10 Literature class that spans 10 days - 2 weeks of one hour class periods. We invite at least one or two other English classes to join us to serve as the audience, as their participation is required for voting polls and generating questions for our panelists' response. These Discussion Series are a highlight of the year for my students, and serve as unforgettable events that generate authentic engagement with texts such as Orwell's 1984
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9th - 12th
Essay On Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, "The King of India"
Essay On Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, "The King of India" from Acient History.Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj (1630-1680) was a renowned Indian warrior king and founder of the Maratha Empire. He was born in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra and fought against the Mughal Empire and the Sultanate of Bijapur to establish his own kingdom.Shivaji is known for his military tactics, including guerilla warfare and strategic alliances, which allowed him to gain control over vast territories in India. He
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K-ESS3-1
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