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Introduction to the Script Department

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study drama and plays. They study the job of a playwright and discuss plot and conflict in a play script. Together, as a class, they access an online resource site to find information about playwrights and then decide upon and...
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An Apple Tree in Fall

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover the two color families and how artists use the colors to express mood or feeling. Students paint pictures using water colors of an apple tree and include background, middle ground, and foreground in their scene.
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Soho Square

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
View the film Soho Square. Improvise sequences based around everyday locations and consider how theater and film differ in the way they engage an audience with the group of characters. Develop a group of performances using the extract...
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Cora Unashamed

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students watch the Masterpiece movie " Cora Unashamed." They study American social history, race relations, and investigate Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance. They have a discussion before and after viewing the film.
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Lights, Camera, Action!

For Teachers 4th - Higher Ed
Students participate in an alternative reading assessment using a video camera and script. In this alternative reading lesson, students work as a group to perform their reading story. students memorize their lines and film their play.
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Recreating a Masterpiece

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze and critique various artists and their work. They write research papers on artists and create reproductions of their works, reflecting their earlier critiques of the works.
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Pipe-Cleaner Stick Figures

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create puppets out of pipe cleaners and, in groups, put on a puppet show based on a section of a story they have read from their readers.
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I Am Special and You Are Special Too

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discover how everyone is special in his or her own way. In this character traits lesson plan, students demonstrate how they are special by drawing a picture or writing. Students listen orally to the book We Are All Alike...We...
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LA CENERENTOLA (Cinderella)

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils formulate how to make puppets and realize that puppetry, like opera, is another kind of theater. They gain deeper knowledge of the characters in Rossini's La Referentially. Students use this concept to make decisions about...
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Shakespeare Character Analysis Using "Twelfth Night"

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders complete a six-week unit on character analysis for the play "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare. They conduct research and write a report, participate in a book talk, and create a character analysis assignment to...
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Paws in Jobland: Lesson Plan 2 - Role Play

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss and role play various careers in order to become familiar with the curriculum of the book "Paws in Jobland". In this introductory lesson, students pretend they do a certain job, and answer written questions about what...
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Theme 5: Doers and Dreamers Propaganda

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create and perform one act scenes that use the strategies of advertising. in this propaganda study lesson, 7th graders watch a commercial and are assigned a propaganda strategy. Students plan a scene that illustrates the...
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Posture and Pantomime: Total Body Movement

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students analyze posture and pantomime in an analysis of total body movement. In this body movement instructional activity, students read a chart of movements and the mood or attitude they convey. Students complete several space and...
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Two American Entreprenuers: Madam C.J. Walker and J.C. Penny

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners identify the attributes that helped Walker and Penney to succeed as entrepreneurs. They compare and contrast Walker and Penney for similarities and differences in backgrounds and business methods.
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Dancing Good and Evil from Dance in America

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create a pantomime, work cooperatively to conduct and share research, identify and discuss how movement is used to depict the ethereal Odette and the sinister Odile, and creatively pay tribute to the lovers, Odette and Siegfried.
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Semiotics and Set: Year 9

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore semiotics and the meanings of stage sets.
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Character Study in Macbeth

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders analyze a Shakespeare soliloquy by writing a prose summary of it. They keep a character journal, following one character through the play and analyzing what the character does and says, as well as, might have done or...
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Status Games

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders, in groups, participate in a simulation activity in which they are assigned a certain "status" role to play in a given situation. After the simulation, they reveal their status roles and discuss what they observed. They...
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Isolate One Plot Line

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students read any dramatic play. They identify the plot lines within the play and then isolate one of the plot lines. In groups, they analyze individual scenes and perform them, complete with props, costumes, etc. They discover how...
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Meet Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov!

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students listen to music and review instruments of the orchestra. They explore musical terms, solo, texture and theme of the music and discuss other features of the music. Students research and discuss the life of Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov.
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Expressing the Future Resource Sheet

For Students 5th - 8th
In this expressing the future resource instructional activity, students examine the use of present simple, present continuous, be going to, and will words. They see examples in each of four boxes that example the use of words to express...
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Using Enough + Infinitive

For Students 6th - 9th
In this infinities worksheet, students complete 5 sentences using "enough" and a logical infinitive. They then write 5 sentences using "enough" plus the infinitive with the words in parenthesis.
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Tudor Entertainment Word Search

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Tudor history worksheet, students read and analyze 20 words that pertain to entertainment in the Tudor era. Students find the words in a word search puzzle.
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Vocabulary and Sentences Exercise (Using Ban, Forbid, Not Allow, and Prohibit)

For Students 4th - 5th
For this vocabulary and sentence structure worksheet, students practice using the words ban, forbid, not allow, and prohibit. Students complete twenty "fill in the blank" sentences and create four sentences of their own.

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