This 2-page handout asks students to compare Shakespeare's classic, Taming of the Shrew, with its modern teen incarnation, 10 Things I Hate About...
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This four-page, three-part article provides tips and strategies to make the most of your reader's theater or classroom play activities. "Why Use ...
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This playful little "singing tips" video is presented by teens from our I am Bullyproof Music pop chorus. Meet some of the young singers who reco...
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Over 100 slides in length! Combining 4 thorough, fantastic PowerPoints that cover the following: Shakespeare's life, the Globe, the Elizabethan ...
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Over 50 slides! More than a week's worth of information!!! A great deal!!! Combining several of my most popular power points, this JUMBO STEAL ...
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Complete Iambic Pentameter Lesson Plan
As used by "Iambic Pentameter Rap" and "Living Iambic Pentameter"
A great way to start off your Romeo an...
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Every actor must thoroughly process a passage before performance - especially if an audition is on the horizon. This resource breaks down Edmund'...
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This is a decorative font created to use in your teaching and classroom resources.
To install the font, most users will need to unzip the fil...
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Drama - Play Outline for Play Writing Project. Drama writing activity. If you want your students to write their own play, this is a good way to g...
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Before you begin reading any Shakespearean play, you must use this product to prepare your students!
Sometimes we forget that students are not ...
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Julius Caesar Final Test of 100 questions that are Scantron Ready for easy grading
Part 1 True or False (1-65)
Part 2 Figures of Speech/Li...
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This 13 page packet contains 144 prompts for impromptu public speaking. There are 6 categories of prompts (24 in each category): Current Events, ...
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This file comes with Hollywood themed folder labels, desk plates, and a bonus of mini chocolate candy bar wrappers.
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Jam-Packed! Focuses on Shakespeare's Globe theatre. This is an extensive powerpoint that will give your students an idea of the theatre's signif...
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US Marine Corps Criminal Investigations Division agent stages his death to go dark and take on the head of a Russian Crime Syndicate, perpetrator...
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This activity is a pre-reading strategy. Prior to the students beginning The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare, they would take part in this fun...
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Drama Headquarters is a list of plays suitable for high school, middle school and primary school all available for free and complete perusal.
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This is a bundle of lesson plans, daily activities, handouts, writing prompts, tests, etc for teaching A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry....
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by Kathy Applebee
Looking for an audience interactive mystery dinner theater with a Christian theme? Writing Mysteries Can Be Murder is for you...
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Here are eleven student Study Guide handouts and eleven combination chapter Quizzes and Discussion Prompts for A Streetcar Named Desire. Each stu...
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The Trial Assignment for Hamlet creates a courtroom drama right in your classroom. Students love this assignment, and it becomes a guiding focus...
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This is a template that I use when I am teaching my students to write in their journals. It is a perfect bell activity. It includes spaces for ...
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Drama Student's Headshot and Resume
Do this project in either September as a great ice breaker for all students or at the end of the year as a w...
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A terrific hands-on, small-group activity to help students explore the events that make up the plot of William Shakespeare's play Julius Ca...
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This is a collection of more than 45 files for teaching Oscar Wilde's play, The Importance of Being Earnest. While this is not a scripted unit/le...
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FREE SCRIPT PACKAGE
This package contains a sampling of what is available in the five script packages on this site from simple monologues to m...
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This is a dynamic lesson that uses web design as a vehicle for getting students to improve their self-concept ...
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Stage adaption of the Charles Dickens famous Christmas classic. Lots of speaking parts! Lots of fun. Very true to the Dickens original.
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This is a storyboard I created for my students to use when writing their scripts. It helps for them to visualize what they are going to do and w...
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This is a hundred-word crossword puzzle on The Merchant of Venice that is intended for review after a discussion of the play. Students can work ...
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Readers theater or radio script of the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock, including the decision to write the Mayflower Compact. Wonderful histo...
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As a drama and English teacher I have found that working with Shakespeare is often difficult for the students simply because of the sheer mass of...
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Do you need a better way to reinforce vocabulary? Try this nine-piece context clue puzzle designed to challenge students' understanding of the wo...
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This is a Reader's Theater for the entire class. We did it as our spring play and, of course being teachers, we merged the Language Arts goals of...
This 70 question document includes specific, detailed questions on each act as well as overview questions on the play that can be done individual...
The Zeffirelli (1968) Romeo and Juliet film starring Olivia Hussey is a great teaching tool to help students identify the subtle differences betw...
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This file includes 31 days + holiday calendar pieces and 12 monthly headings with a Hollywood theme. Just print, cut, and attach to your blank ca...
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This teacher pack includes:
**Hamlet’s Dysfunctional Family Tree** (will make your students chuckle)
The Globe Notes
Shakespeare Notes
Quiz...
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Students will have fun acting out chapter three of To Kill a Mockingbird while learning about point of view.
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All the following stories adapted for the stage: The Lady or the Tiger, Little Women, Silas Marner, Pride and Prejudice, Difficult People, A Lott...
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To get your unit on Hamlet started, use this worksheet to introduce the larger concepts to students. Questions about action vs. inaction, justic...
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This commentary presents a detailed analysis of the play, examining the roles of the various conspirators, the concept of tragedy and the charact...
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My name is Melanie Whitesides and I teach on the Navajo Indian Reservation. I have adapted 7 different coyote tales for Reader's Theater. Not all...
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Test includes 50 short-answer questions and seven possible essay questions. Most questions may be answered in 1-3 words. Because the questions ar...
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Fun and original. An opportunity to develop your own.
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This activity focusses on the rigid ideology of the Puritans as it is portrayed in Miller's play The Crucible and the accusers during the McCarth...
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I've compiled all SEVEN of my favorite Spanish class skits into one file for you to purchase. You will get 26 PAGES of never-ending FUN and CREA...
Most of this analysis of Hamlet's soliloquies is from my commentary on Hamlet (235 pages, 98, 000 words) It focuses on each of the six soliloqui...
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A very fun radio script based on one of Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories "The Musgrave Ritual." Excellent for classroom reading, reading's the...
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This jeopardy game reviews, characters, important quotations, themes, and literary elements of the play, Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Th...
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