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\nReader's Theater Exercise: The Night Before Christmas\n

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\nYes, Virginia, there really is a reader's theater script for \"The Night Before Christmas.\" The exercise is a great way to productively channel pre-holiday energy.\n
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\nHrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater: Crash Course Theater #9\n

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\nThe ninth video in the Crash Course Theatre series focuses on how two women brought theater back into the Christian world. Canoness Hrotsvitha, the first female playwright and Hildegard of Bingen, a nun who composed liturgical dramas,...\n
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\nLiterary Terms: Take Me to the Theater!\n

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\nTake your class to the theater! First graders will examine characters that actors play such a villians and heroes. Then participate in creating plays and performing in them. They will also research what it takes to create scenery, props...\n
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\nGreek Comedy, Satyrs, and Aristophanes: Crash Course Theater #4\n

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\nWhat better way to tell a story than with actors dressed like horses? Information about satyr plays and other aspects of Greek comedy makes up the fourth video in the Crash Course Theater series. The discussion includes references to...\n
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\nSongs from Shakespeare's Plays\n

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\nMatch the lyrics of songs found in Shakespeare's plays to the work they came from. Bonus: sing the songs! You do get to choose from four titles in this multiple-choice quiz, and no, you do not have to sing the songs if you don't want to....\n
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\nThe American Revolution: A Play\n

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\nNo lesson accompanies this drama about the American Revolution. With 13 speaking roles, the short script could be used for a class production, a lesson on the parts of a play, or to supplement your social studies curriculum.\n
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\nHamlet: Study Guide\n

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\nHopefully, learners do not sleep during a performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet. A helpful study guide introduces theater goers to the popular Shakespearean tragedy and includes activities to accompany a production of the play. Activities...\n
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\nMan of La Mancha: Study Guide\n

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\nIt's the end of the sixteenth century in the middle of the Spanish Inquisition when a group of prisoners decides to dramatize the story of Don Quixote. A study guide provides a summary and other important information about the play Man...\n
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\nReading for Fluency: Readers Theater about the Rainforest (Page 33)\n

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\nLights, camera, action. Scholars use page 33 of The Most Beautiful\nRoof in the World to create a readers theater. They work in triads and use sticky notes to mark and create their own speaking parts from sections of the text. They...\n
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\nWhy Should You Read \"Waiting for Godot\"?\n

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\nSometimes life feels like a tragic comedy. A video about the play Waiting for Godot describes the play as a tragic comedy. Viewers see a summary of the famous drama and its history before answering multiple-choice and open-ended...\n
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\nThe Cinder-Eyed Cats - Storybook Theater\n

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\nThe students listen to the story \"The Cinder-Eyed Cats.\" The students then chose individual parts to play in a theater like production. The students move like their character, be it a fish, an octopus, a lobster, a cat, etc. Water music...\n
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\nReader's Theater\n

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\nConduct a Reader's Theater. Third, fourth, and fifth graders rewrite books with a baseball theme to a Reader's Theater format. They form groups of four or five, practice reading the script, and then perform it for an audience.\n
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\nModern American Theatre: Intro to Drama\n

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\nSet this slideshow up at as an independent work station, or to provide your theater arts class with a look at the many manifestations of modern literary drama. Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and Arthur Miller are the focus of the...\n
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\nReading the Play\n

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\nDo figures of speech enhance a play or story? In small groups, learners locate and describe figures of speech they find while reading a reader's theater play. After making predictions, they describe how the figures of speech make the...\n
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\nTheater Arts/Creative Movement Lesson Plan\n

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\nHere is a series of five exercises intended to bring movement, dance, and theater into the classroom. Intended for special ed classes, but appropriate for any grade, learners will pantomime, play pretend, dance, move, and create...\n
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\nMythology: Reader's Theater\n

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\nBuild reading fluency and classroom community with a Reader’s Theater activity. Class groups select a myth, or if part of a myth writing unit, select a group member’s myth, craft a script, and perform for the class. Directions for...\n
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\nDevelopment of English Drama\n

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\nFrom mystery plays to Shakespeare! Progress chronologically through the evolution of English drama, which began as a way for English clergymen in the eleventh century to illustrate biblical stories to the mass of illiterate commoners....\n
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\nAristotle's Six Elements Of A Play\n

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\nFifth graders view the play, The Ant and the Grasshopper. They define Aristotle's six elements of a play. At the end of the lesson, 5th graders be asked to participate in the play by acting like busy ants. This lesson would tie in nicely...\n
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\nReaders Theatre Scripts\n

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\nEngage and entertain young learners with this collection of readers theatre activities. With over 25 different scripts, a wide range of topics are covered from simple counting and rhyming exercises to adaptions of popular children's...\n
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\nFrom Start to Strike: A Lesson Plan for the Whole Theatre Experience\n

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\nIntroduce young thespians to all aspects of the theater. A syllabus for a one-semester drama course provides lessons that take learners from the history of drama to the many facets of play production.\n
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\nMoliere - Man of Satire and Many Burials: Crash Course Theater #21\n

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\nStraight Outta Stratford-Upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Early Days: Crash Course Theater #14\n

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\nThe Horrors of the Grand Guignol: Crash Course Theater #35\n

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\nRace Melodrama and Minstrel Shows: Crash Course Theater #30\n

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