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Looking for short scripts for teaching about radio drama, mystery, or voice acting? Trying to find a royalty free, flexible performance piece? Students and audiences alike love using authentic scripts and trying to solve the mystery. The audience stays engaged as they try to be the first to figure it out! This bundle includes 14 radio play scripts plus a bonus page with another bonus script and links to mp3s of the theme music and organ stings referenced in the scripts.Murder, If You PleaseThe

Looking for short scripts for teaching about radio drama or voice acting?Students love using real scripts and trying to solve the mystery. This keeps the audience engaged as they try to be the first to figure it out! This bundle includes all 7 scripts offered in this store plus a bonus document with links to mp3s of the theme music and organ stings referenced in the scripts. The MasqueradeDeath Calls at DinnerThe Fine Art of MurderMurder, If You PleaseNo Leg to Stand OnBest Laid PlansMurder of M

This lesson plan is perfect for introducing or reviewing areas of the stage with elementary, middle, or high school students. It is simple, yet active and engaging, and will leave your students familiar with stage right, stage left, upstage, downstage, levels and basic areas of the stage.This plan includes:suggested question of the dayslideshowinstructions for two (2) physical activities/gamesa Kahoot review game that coordinates with the slideshow"The Play About Me" activity (see below)The slid

This unit is a student favorite: engaging, useful, and lots of fun!Students will develop and demonstrate vocal skills such as: creating a character voice, identifying and demonstrating the six primary elements of theatrical voice (volume, tempo, tone, pitch, articulation, and accent), creating a voicemap, and using voice to show character.This unit is anchored by two performance based assessments: Character Voice Project and Five Minute Mystery Project (both available separately in my store).

This bundle includes everything you need for a semester long course in performance for novice actors. Three units build on one another to a final performance based assessment where students create their own character and perform it for the class. Students ease their way into performing: the first class performance is not memorized and the audience even has its back to the performers! By the end of the semester, students who have never performed before are performing self written monologues

Looking for short scripts for teaching about radio drama, mystery, or voice acting? Trying to find a royalty free, flexible performance piece?Students and audiences alike love using authentic scripts and trying to solve the mystery. The audience stays engaged as they try to be the first to figure it out! This bundle includes 14 radio play scripts plus a bonus page with another bonus script and links to mp3s of the theme music and organ stings referenced in the scripts.Murder, If You PleaseThe Ma

Do you need a fun, memorable project to assess voice and listening skills?Have you always wanted to do a project on radio drama?This class project has been a favorite among my students for years. Students will work in small groups to create characters, character voices, and creative live sound effects for a low pressure performance. Lines do not need to be memorized, and the audience will even be facing away from the performers! This is a great first project with a group who has not spoken or

Do your students need a crash course in good audience etiquette? Perhaps you are taking them on a field trip to a play or symphony. Perhaps they need to learn to be respectful of each other during class presentations. Here is an easy lesson plan to help students identify respectful and disrespectful audience behavior.Included:Question of the day (students get really fired up about this one!)Two (2) slideshows featuring fun gifs and a few theater jokes to demonstrate the difference between ter

Acting is a skill that can be taught, and this unit will help you do that!This comprehensive unit takes students through the four elements of storytelling and how each can be used to inform acting choices. Through choosing their character's objectives, dividing their scenes into beats, and assigning each beat a tactic, students learn the difference between acting and pretending/performing. "Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances." -Sanford MeisnerThe unit is written with a

Looking for short scripts for teaching about radio drama, mystery, or voice acting?Students love using real scripts and trying to solve the mystery. This keeps the audience engaged as they try to be the first to figure it out! This PDF includes 7 radio play scripts plus a bonus page with links to mp3s of the theme music and organ stings referenced in the scripts.Murder, If You PleaseThe MasqueradeThe Murder of Mrs. BrooksNo Leg to Stand OnFine Art of MurderDeath Calls at DinnerBest Laid PlansThe

Upgrade your get to know game with this fun activity that also serves as a great beginning of the year bulletin board!Included is a slideshow you can use to take students through the steps of creating their own playbill about them! This can be presented as a group, virtually, or as homework. The slideshow includes instructions and examples for each step. Also included is a template for the playbill based on Broadways iconic programs. The playbill can be created on paper or digitally. Stud

This lesson plan includes at least 2 hours worth of content and activities to teach/reinforce/review the concept of objective, obstacle, and tactic. These activities could be used in a theater/drama or ELA classroom and will solidify these concepts for your students. This plan includes everything you need to teach the lessons! Included:Detailed lesson planSlideshow for teaching concept and contentQuestion of the DayInstructions for two (2) improv gamesList of eighty (80) tacticsList of ten (10)

Looking for short scripts for teaching about radio drama or voice acting?Students love using real scripts and trying to solve the mystery. This keeps the audience engaged as they try to be the first to figure it out! This bundle includes 7 more scripts plus a bonus document with links to mp3s of the theme music and organ stings referenced in the scripts.Command PerformanceThe Book CaseDead Men Do TellMurder on Diamond RowCase of OversightA Bit of LogicBlind ConfessionThese adaptations have been

Looking for an engaging and accessible unit on playwriting?This unit teaches students how to write a scene by creating original characters, making relationships between them, choosing a detailed setting, and choosing objectives for their characters. These four elements are the building blocks of a scene: character, relationship, objective, and where (setting); also known as CROW or CORE. Students will develop their skills and vocabulary in playwriting using CROW as a vehicle (character, relatio

Do you want to do scenework with your students but need the resources to guide them (and better yet, help them guide themselves)? This bundle includes all the resources you and your students need for a project in scenework. Included:Blocking and GroundplansSlideshow with activities for practice and exploration of creating and reading groundplans, stage pictures, and blockingBonus Mini Lesson on stage pictures using VTS (Visual Thinking Strategies)Assignment on Dry BlockingRehearsal SlideshowSte

Looking for a short script for teaching about radio drama or voice acting? Students love using real scripts and trying to solve the mystery. This keeps the audience engaged as they try to be the first to figure it out! "Best Laid Plans" is a four character mystery about the smuggling of diamonds. This adaptation has been transcribed from the original radio show, "Five Minute Mysteries" airing in the late 1940s. It has been adapted for readability and appropriateness for a modern audience.

Do you find yourself searching for school appropriate monologues? Is it even harder to find one of a classic character or one in a specific genre? Do you need something royalty free for classroom use or performance?!These 20 monologues cover a broad spectrum of styles. Each features the Big Bad Wolf from "The Three Little Pigs." This classic character can be played seriously or comically, as a villain or hero, and by any gender. Each is between one and two minutes in performance length-sho

This script is a wonderful, funny, and authentic resource for those teaching radio drama. This thirty minute comedy can be broken into scenes for class projects, or even performed in its entirety without royalties. Please see below for performance information. About Our Miss Brooks:The radio show, “Our Miss Brooks,” was originally broadcast by CBS, starring Eve Arden.  This was an extremely popular comedy in the mid-twentieth century. It was also made into a television show, a movie, and a pl

Have you ever wondered if you could tell when someone is fake smiling? Do you wish you could better tell if someone is lying or how they are feeling? After these lessons you will!The Duchenne smile refers to a real smile, created involuntarily. To begin, you and your students will study smiles and how they affect the entire face. There are seven universal facial expressions, and you will next discover how faces are affected by anger, sadness, disgust, surprise, fear, and contempt. Included:DUCH

Looking for short scripts for teaching about radio drama, mystery, or voice acting?Students love using real scripts and trying to solve the mystery. This keeps the audience engaged as they try to be the first to figure it out! This PDF includes 7 radio play scripts plus a bonus page with links to mp3s of the theme music and organ stings referenced in the scripts.Command PerformanceThe Book CaseDead Men Do TellMurder on Diamond RowCase of OversightA Bit of LogicBlind ConfessionThese adaptations h