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Arts & music Common Core RL.8.7 resources
Introduction to Drama Unit with Interactive Notebook Lessons Slides Activities
Teaching introduction to drama in middle school is finally broken down with this complete drama unit. This unit includes 11 done-for-you lesson plans, interactive notebook lessons, 10 accompanying lesson slideshow presentations, reference pages, graphic organizers, and grading rubrics. Each lesson is quick and easy to set up and I have done ALL the work for you. You could even leave these lesson plans for subs. Here's what you'll get:Drama Unit: 11 Lesson Plans and Resources10 Slideshow presen
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6th - 8th
The Hitchhiker by Lucille Fletcher—Radio Play Drama Analysis & The Twilight Zone
Students will read and analyze the script of Lucille Fletcher's radio play: The Hitchhiker (also spelled The Hitch-Hiker). Have them listen to the drama on the Orson Welles Show to understand the impact that music and sound effects have on a play. Students will love to compare the audio version of The Hitchhiker to the episode of The Twilight Zone Rod Serling adapted for television. (The gender swap of the main character makes for a great discussion.)In this dreadful, ominous tale, students will
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6th - 9th
Also included in: The Hitchhiker Unit — Radio Drama by Lucille Fletcher
Game: Fairy Tale Wedding (Mystery Activity Package)
FAIRY TALE WEDDING MYSTERY ACTIVITY PACKET
You are cordially invited to the Fairy Tale Wedding of Prince Charming and Cinderella. Oops! They've been kidnapped! Whodunit? Why?
Bring literature to life while writing your own ending to a highly interactive event that immerses students in literary terms and research first hand. After engaging in discussion and research into the fairy tale genre of literature, players take the roles of various fairy tale characters and function as both suspe
Introduction to Drama PowerPoint
This Drama PowerPoint is an excellent introduction to theater and drama lesson you project on your whiteboard to start teaching and hook your students. Presentation has animations, sounds, and graphics that engage students when starting a drama unit. Defines drama terms like playwright, stage directions, set, props, script, etc. Includes staging, dramatization, how plays are produced, the role of the audience and theater etiquette. Also includes information on Greek theater, Shakespearean theate
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
Also included in: Drama Unit Resource BUNDLE Print and Digital Easel Activities
Film Terminology - Cinema Vocabulary for Analyzing Movies
Analyzing movies can be difficult without a working vocabulary of film techniques. This lesson gives a thorough and effective background in film for students to use cinematic vocabulary to analyze movies! The lesson is most effective in an ELA, Film Studies, or Social Studies class that integrates film analysis into the curriculum. When used early in the year, students develop a working vocabulary to analyze films at a deeper level.This Film Facts packet provides you with the resources you need
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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"Thriller": Citing Textual Evidence, Conflict, Theme and Video Analysis
Just in time for Halloween, students will love interacting with Michael Jackson's classic "Thriller" as they:
•Make inferences from the text and cite textual evidence to support inferences.
•Analyze the development of theme through the analysis of plot, setting, characters, and conflict.
•Compare and contrast the lyrics and video adaption of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”.
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.7
Creative Commons Terms of Use
"Thriller" Mini Lesson is licensed under a Creative Common
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6th - 9th
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22 spooky, scary reader's theater scripts and monologues from Literature
Graphic descriptions and scenes begging for prediction occur frequently in horror literature. This genre also elicits some strong emotions and students often find it easy to put themselves into the character’s shoes. This product includes 22 pieces crafted from American writers such as Edgar A. Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Jack London and Nathaniel Hawthorne and World Literature such as Shakespeare, Sir, Arthur C. Doyle and George MacDonald.Pre- and post- points to ponder, writing prompts, exit tickets
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7th - 12th
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CHRISTMAS SONG ANALYSIS [ASSIGNMENTS & PROJECTS] [MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL EDITION]
Are you stumped about what to do with students for the week(s) prior to the Winter Break? Don't worry about it! Let them analyze Christmas/Holiday music! The Christmas Song Analysis& Projects product for middle and high schoolers dispels the end of year chaos for you and adds excitement for them. This product has 6 PROJECTS and assignments, 17 songs with videos, lyrics provided to display on your Promethean OR for annotations, worksheets for the songs in the product, and a general set of que
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: THE CHRISTMAS AND HOLIDAY BUNDLE
Radio Drama Unit and The Frozen Pirate Radio Play
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 pr
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9th - 11th
A Midsummer Night's Dream | Digital Escape Room | Abridged Script
Do you have a problem finding an appropriate version of Shakespeare that can be performed with teens? Shakespeare for Teens A Midsummer Night's Dream with a Digital Escape Room Review Game is your solution. The language of the original version can be challenging, while modern versions make the text unrecognizable. This adapted version allows teens to easily access the text while giving the same feel and rhythm of language as the original. This lesson gets students out of their seats and performi
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5th - 12th
DEAR EVAN HANSEN | MUSICAL THEATER AS LITERATURE
I am a huge Dear Evan Hansen fangirl, and so many of my students are too! The writing is brilliant and offers so many opportunities to meet ELA standards in creative and engaging ways. This week-long unit includes background materials, activities and links for:Anybody Have a Map?Waving Through a WindowRequiemYou Will Be FoundStudent will practice characterization, metaphor, using text-based evidence to support claims, literary analysis, and essay writing. For a full explanation of how to use eac
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8th - 12th
Film and Literature- Complete Unit Plan with Lesson Plans, Worksheets, & Finals
Common Core State Standards aligned!
Includes:
-unit overview
-daily lesson plans
-worksheets for a variety of texts
-teacher keys
-two final assessments
-links to additional resources and materials
Texts used in the unit: Harry Potter; Nanny McPhee/Nurse Matilda; The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe; A Little Princess; Citizen Kane; etc.
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The unit was designed to hit the 7th Grade Common Core Reading Fictional Text Standards; however, it also works nicely with the 8th Grade Com
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7th - 9th
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MyPerspectives 9th Grade Unit 4: Star Crossed Romance (Romeo & Juliet)
This comprehensive and engaging resource consists of 114 Slides for Romeo and Juliet. Slides contain activities, prompts, assessments, discussion questions, a mock trial, close readings, Jeopardy game links, mini-lessons, and so much more to make teaching and learning Romeo and Juliet fun, educational, and creative!The handouts bundle includes over 20 resources of corresponding handouts for the unit, which includes a mock trial framework, a ready to use end-of -play assessment with a step-by-ste
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8th - 12th
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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Movie Viewing Guide
Movie viewing guide for the movie "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief." Questions ask students to:Analyze characters and character motivationsCompare and contrast the book to the movieConsider why changes were made in adapting the bookNote: This viewing guide is intended to be used after reading the book--several questions ask students to compare and contrast the book and the movie.
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6th - 12th
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Scripts: Mark Twain reader's theater (2) & lesson plans
Two of Mark Twain’s humorous short stories are presented in reader’s theater format: The Million Pound Note and The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Also included are lesson plans with NCTE and Virginia standards, review games, a How and Why of Reader’s Theater and a How to Use the Jigsaw Method. (ZIP file with PDF’s)Recall and higher level thinking questions plus a variety of formal assessments make the lessons easy to tier. Makes an excellent pre-reading activity not only to prov
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: American Literature
The Giver Movie Guide
Keep students engaged in movies by providing guides for them to complete during viewing. This movie guide for The Giver contains 22 chronological questions and an answer guide.Movie Guide RecommendationsIs there a movie you want to show in class, but you don't have a guide to help keep students focused and engaged while viewing? Please click here to provide recommendations for movie guides you'd like to see available, and I'll do my best to get them for you!Earn TpT Credits!Did you know you can
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6th - 9th
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Common Core Screenwriting - Students As Screenwriters - Creative Writing Unit
What Is Screenwriting?Screenwriting is a form of storytelling that creates a visual tale for the reader, and if performed, the viewer. Screenplays can be either original pieces of work, or stories taken from other forms of literature. This is commonly to referred to as an adapted screenplay. Why Every Student Should Be A Screenwriter?In creating any screenplay, the writer must have a clear understanding of the setting, the characters, and dialogue. This is true for the work in its entirety,
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5th - 12th
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Mise en Scene Film Analysis for Any Movie Clip or Movie Still - Print & Digital
Analyzing MISE EN SCÈNE in a film can be a challenging process for students. This lesson gives a thorough and effective background in MISE EN SCÈNE analysis for students to study any scene from a film or a movie still (photograph)! This difficult process is made easier for the teacher and the student with a clear and direct guide for students to follow. The guide breaks down all elements of the scene into small segments: set, props, actors, lighting, cinematography, and composition. Once student
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Hunger Games Trilogy Poetry & Creative Writing Exercises
The Hunger Games Poetry and Creative Writing Exercises Aligned with the Common Core State Standards:
Celebrate poetry during your Hunger Games, Catching Fire, or Mockingjay unit. This packet includes several exercises and prompts for writing original poetry.
It also includes activities for using artwork for comparison and research. It is a great way to add art history/appreciation into your lessons and satisfy the Common Core Standards for English/Language Arts. This is the FULL version that
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Diary of Anne Frank: Movie Questions
After reading the actual diary or the play adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank with your students, show your class the 2009 film version (TV mini-series). These movie questions help students stay focused during the film and give them ideas to think about as they compare the play to the film version.I'd love to hear how this product worked for you so please leave me a review.Click to Follow:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Sellers-Im-Following/Add/Knowstuff
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (the play): Unit materials
A Christmas Carol-Horovitz stage adaptation-close reading questions all scenes
These questions are to be used with the Israel Horovitz stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
These will work as close reading or lit circle questions. They can also be used prior to performing the play.
Pages are formatted in two columns, and can be printed front to back then cut in half to save paper and to fit better into notebooks and journals.
This is the complete set of questions. I also have the questions for individual scenes available on my TpT site.
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7th - 8th
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Black History Month Readers Theatre Play
This Readers Theater script for Black History Month is great for middle and high school students. "The Spirits of Black History." 8-10 actors. All genders are flexible. Ten minutes long. Can be done in class or on stage. The staging is simple, with no heavy or large props. Written by playwright Dante Wellman. There is a very short dance routine performed by the Nicholas Brothers. The teacher has full discretion/freedom here to develop a brief routine; one or two musicians could also be added to
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7th - 12th
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The Devil and Tom Walker reader's theater scripts, prompts and projects
Product includes 2 reader’s theater scripts breaking the short story by Washington Irving into 10 scenes. One is for whole classroom participation while the other can be used for a performance or drama club script.Reader’s theater gives students an authentic reason to read and reread as well as analyze characters in order to perform. Additionally, exit tickets, a reader’s theater rubric, the How’s and Why’s of Reader’s Theater, Jigsaw Method with Reader’s Theater Scripts, and a compare and cont
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: American Literature
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THE LOVE SONG ANALYSIS [ASSIGNMENTS & PROJECTS] [MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL EDITION]
Are you stumped about what to do with your students for Valentine's Day? Don't worry about it! Let them analyze LOVE songs! The LOVE Song Analysis& Projects RESOURCE for middle and high schoolers can be used for one day, one week, or up to a month or unit of love and adds excitement for them, even if they don't have a "boo" or "bae." This EDITABLE resource has 9 PROJECTS and assignments, a whopping 25 popular love songs with videos, lyrics provided to display on your Promethean OR for annota
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6th - 12th
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