Theater Lesson| Talk Like a Pirate Day Plus Radio Play Script
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Description
Sea Shanty anyone? Celebrate Talk like a Pirate Day in September or anyday! This two-day lesson gives the students an opportunity to learn about acting by studying dialects and accents. Finish the lesson by performing (in class) a radio theater play, The Frozen Pirate. You'll be feeling your pirate self by the time the lesson is over!
The product includes:
- letter to teacher
- two warmup exercises--MY versions of these popular exercises
- teacher's script--what I say and how I say it!
- procedure for two days
- two lessons full of cooperative learning
- history of Talk Like a Pirate Day
- history of radio theater
- a short biography of the author of A Frozen Pirate
- pirate and nautical words and phrases
- A Frozen Pirate radio play script (adapted for the classroom) complete with music and sound cues
- radio theater terms
- music suggestions for radio play
- sound suggestions materials for radio play
- floor plan for blocking a radio play performance
- radio theater synopses
- video clip links, sources
- and more!
Created by an award winning drama teacher and director of thirty-eight years, this unit is a winner!
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