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\nUnderstanding Set Design\n

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\nLooking for a complete unit on set design? Check out the lessons in a collection that takes theatre arts students through the entire process, from the initial reading and analysis of a script to the presentation of a production model.\n
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\nScriptwriting Skill Module: Dialogue\n

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\nWhat is dialogue? What must it contain? Use this plan to discuss dialogue with your emerging writers. They write a dialogue in script form to dramatize a conversation. Dialogue examples are included. \n
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\nTheater: Create a Script\n

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\nFigurative language is the focus in the book Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia. After reading Peggy Parish's book, class members dramatize idioms from the text, using dramatic strategies such as characterization, exaggeration, and...\n
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\nWrite a Harry Potter Script\n

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\nExamine the technique of writing a script and complete a worksheet in which young writers summarize a favorite chapter in a Harry Potter book. They practice public speaking by acting out the summarization scenes for classmates. Handouts...\n
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\nWriting Scripts\n

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\nCreate a classroom full of writers using this innovative technique. The presentation walks learners through the process of writing a script, including identifying the setting, characters, and major events in the story. After reviewing...\n
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\nOur Group Readers Theater: Revision, Conclusion, and First Rehearsal\n

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\nRevision is the key to great writing. Individuals revise their readers theater scripts and write a group conclusion. Scholars then perform their scripts for another group and receive feedback.\n
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\nSimple Machines\n

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\nHave your class conduct research to learn all they can about simple machines. They use the web, take notes from a video, write a script, then make a film describing various simple machines found in real life. These videos are then...\n
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\nThe Pied Piper of Hamelin\n

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\nSix tasks make up a lesson plan designed to reinforce comprehension and language skills using the poem \"The Pied Piper\" by Robert Browing. Scholars discuss and define unknown words, identify adjectives and onomatopoeia, review...\n
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\nWriting a Screenplay\n

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\nIt's time to make a movie! Kids follow 15 steps to take their movie ideas from concept to script, following clear examples. The resource includes creative ways to guide learners into developing a few words and concepts into fully...\n
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\nOpinion: Persuasive Essay Unit Introduction\n

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\nOpinion, audience, purpose. Fourth graders are introduced to the three characteristics of persuasive writing in the third unit of a year-long writing program. The 98-page packet is complete with plans, model essays, graphic organizers,...\n
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\nWriting the First Draft of the Readers Theater Script\n

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\nScholars analyze a model Readers Theater script. Then, small groups read their scripts aloud to help determine where they need to make revisions.\n
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\nTeaching Playwriting in Schools\n

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\nThe world is a stage, and so is your classroom! Hone the skills of the next generation of Tony® award winners with a set of exercises, reference pages, writing prompts, and excerpts from famous plays.\n
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\nHow Perspective Shapes Understanding of History\n

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\nThe Boston Massacre may be an iconic event in American history, but perhaps the British soldiers had another point of view. Using primary sources, including reports from Boston newspapers and secondary sources from the British...\n
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\nScripting The Great Train Robbery\n

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\nTake writing prompts to another level in this activity, which allows pupils to create scenes of dialogue based on the 1903 silent film, The Great Train Robbery. Useful for a language arts/history cross-curricular activity, the lesson...\n
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\nWhat's My Point: Persuasive Writing\n

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\nWhy do readers need to know an author’s purpose? How do you figure out what that purpose is? Guide your pupils through a series of activities that show them how to identify various techniques and structures used in persuasive writing....\n
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\nAncient Greece Podcast\n

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\nIn this writing a podcast lesson plan, 7th graders create a podcast involving Ancient Greece. Students follow a rubric and outline to create their podcast. Students present their podcast to their fellow students.\n
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\nFairy Tale Variations\n

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\nHere are two great lessons that work together and are inspired by the Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods. Young writers and actors will retell the story of \"The Frog Prince\" through games, improvisational script writing, and...\n
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\nScripting a Crime Drama\n

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\nDevelop novice script-writers. Small groups sift through a sample script, noting any script-writing conventions to share with the whole class. Using these conventions and plot structures, these groups compose a script for a 10-minute...\n
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\nLesson 3: Writing a News Story\n

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\nStart a writing lesson plan by examining a news video that explains writing clearly, concisely, and correctly. Learners consider the importance of writing news properly to avoid breaking the law, then write their own weekend news stories.\n
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\nScreen Play\n

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\nHigh schoolers examine the New York Times review of the film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and explore the elements of scriptwriting. They read the article about the film adaptation screenplay and examine a...\n
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\nEnd of Unit 3 Assessment: On-Demand Writing— Photograph and Song Choices for a Film\n

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\nReady, set, write! Every great film begins with a script, and every presentation starts with a plan. Directors use their research and experience to compose an essay explaining the rationale behind their film's musical and visual choices...\n
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\nOdyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: Mathematicus Dramaticus\n

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\nPersuasive Writing\n

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\nShould students be paid for doing well in school? That is the question at the heart of an argumentative writing unit that walks writers through the steps of crafting a persuasive essay. The carefully scaffolded scripted plans provide...\n
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\nWeather Forecast\n

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\nStudents forecast the weather. In this weather activity, students are assigned a day to give the weather forecast. Students write a script and video their weather forecast.\n
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