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Introduce plays from William Shakespeare by studying the great adaptions from Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb with their Tales From Shakespeare. These are engaging worksheets geared to having your students interact more with the story line and vocabulary used in each play

Tales From Shakespeare are great adaptions of William Shakespeare's play that allow student to be introduced to the story line in a way they can understand while not being too simplistic. Worksheets, crossword, word search, chapter notes are bundled together based on the story. Answer sheets are provided where necessary.

Not reading the whole book..... check out my store for individual posting of each play.

Including: The Tempest

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Celebrate the 100th Day with older students:

I have transitioned from elementary school to middle school and am teaching drama. I felt this was a good class to try a fun, thoughtful 100th day activity.

Students will choose a person who could be a "character" either fictional or real. The person must be old (I said 80, but did lower the age to 75 for students who could make a good argument) but they do not have 100. I also allowed the students to choose someone who has passed away as long as they were old when they passed away. So, yes to Elaine Stritch, no to Marilyn Monroe.

Students will have a research worksheet to complete about this person which will help them give a presentation about this person. They may present as the person or present about the person.

What's included:

• Student instructions.
• Research worksheet.

How this product is useful:

• A fun break from the routine.
• Research practice.
• Presentation practice.
• A way to link student's own personality traits to a character.

Start your class off with these engaging icebreaker dice where students have fun doing animal actions like:

Act; stomp; eat; hop; sound; run... like a... monkey; frog; cat; cow; elephant; lion.

What is this and what should you do?

Each student rolls the action die and the animal die. Students act out whatever they get.

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Don't forget to share with me how it went with your little ones. I hope it was useful in your classroom.

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Ready to spice up your lessons on Shakespeare’s plays?

Imagine your students passionately delivering lines like, “Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle!” Yep, we’re talking about Shakespearean insults, and this printable game is the ultimate way to engage middle and high schoolers while teaching the Bard’s wit and wordplay!

WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT FOR YOUR CLASSROOM OR HOMESCHOOL:

Interactive Learning: Your students will dive headfirst into Shakespearean language through fun, competitive “duels.”

Drama Meets Creativity: They’ll use accents, gestures, and all the flair to bring the insults to life.

No Prep Required: Just print, set up, and let the hilarity unfold!

WHAT YOU'LL GET:

A list of 50 Shakespearean insults to fuel the duels.

Game instructions for individual battles, team play, and improv scenarios (perfect for all group sizes!).

Creative variations like freestyle duels, skit-making, and improv challenges.

NO Prep- just print and play! Easy setup for classrooms, drama clubs, or homeschool groups.

HOW IT WORKS:

Pair Up or Team Up: Students get their insults ready.

The Duel Begins: With dramatic flair, they throw Shakespearean shade at their opponent.

Audience Votes: The most creative and theatrical delivery wins!

Crown a Champion: Continue the duels until the Shakespearean Insult Champion reigns supreme.

PERFECT FOR:

Literature and drama classes studying Shakespeare plays

Icebreakers or fun review days

Homeschool co-ops looking for creative language activities

LOOKING FOR MORE SHAKESPEARE ACTIVITIES?

Check out the Shakespeare Insults Activity Pack.

Both resources are also included in the Shakespeare Insults Activity and Game bundle so you can save on both!

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If you're an English teacher looking for an effective and engaging way to help your students analyze and understand the complexities of the play _Antigone ,_look no further than our bundle of 5 graphic organizers and rubric.

This product includes 5 unique graphic organizers, each designed to help your students explore a different aspect of the novel. The organizers cover important literary elements such as vocabulary, plot structure, theme development, and more. The included rubric provides a clear and detailed grading system to help you assess your students' work and provide feedback on their understanding of the novel.

Our graphic organizers and rubric are easy to use and will save you time in creating your own review materials. Plus, they're designed with English teachers in mind, so you can be sure that your students are getting the most out of their reading experience.

With our bundle of 5 graphic organizers and rubric, your students will be able to dive deep into the novel and gain a comprehensive understanding of the important concepts and themes presented in Antigone. These materials are a valuable resource for any English teacher who wants to help their students succeed in analyzing complex literary works.

Don't wait! Add our bundle of 5 graphic organizers and rubric to your classroom materials today and watch your students engage with the novel in a whole new way! With this product, you'll be sure to create an unforgettable learning experience that will stay with your students long after they've finished reading Antigone

A fun, simple toddler and preschool friendly dragon yoga sequence.

Poses: Superhero (locust pose), cobra, down dog, mountain pose

Get your students tuned into Fractured Fairytales in your classroom with this ‘Rapunzels Super Strong Hair’ Readers Theatre Script. This funny and heartwarming script is an engaging and entertaining way to teach students about fractured fairytales.

In this Readers Theatre script, your students will act out the Fairytale of Rapunzel, but with a twist! This Fractured Fairytale tells a different version of Rapunzel, where she learns the power of self-reliance and making sacrifices for the greater good.

Through a series of humorous and heartwarming scenes, your students will act out this fractured fairy tale and learn the importance of finding strength within oneself.

Key Features:

• Educational and Entertaining: This fractured fairy tale readers theatre script combines education and entertainment seamlessly, making it an ideal teaching tool. It's perfect for a fairy tale unit or study! Perfect for literacy sessions or the drama classroom!

• Character Development: The fairytale characters in the script are relatable and well developed, allowing your students to connect with them on a personal level.

• Engaging Dialogue: The witty and heartwarming dialogue keeps students engaged and eager to see what happens next, making it an excellent choice for classroom readings and performances.

• Literacy Sessions or Performing Arts Lessons: Perfect to integrate into your literacy centres or your social emotional learning lessons! A great way for your students to study fractured fairytales and then create their own.

• Lesson on Self-Reliance: The central theme of self-reliance is woven throughout this fractured fairytale readers theatre script, imparting a valuable life lesson to young minds.

• Perfect for Years 3 - 7: Suitable for middle-upper elementary and middle school students, this script can be adapted for various grade levels, ensuring that every student can benefit from its message of self-reliance.

• Fractured Fairy Tales: A fun way to teach Fractured Fairytales and all the wonderful literacy elements that comes along with them.

• Easy to Use: All you need to do is print, staple and go!

By using this ‘Rapunzels Super Strong Hair’ Readers Theatre Script, you can explore fractured fairy tales and have fun while you’re at it. Your students will not only enjoy the entertaining story but will also gain a deeper understanding of different perspectives and the power of storytelling.

Simply download, print, staple and you're good to go! Woo hoo!

Enjoy this fractured fairytale readers theatre script!!

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This engaging activity offers two creative approaches to exploring Thanksgiving traditions and food.

Option 1: Dramatic Play

• Laminated Play Food: Create a set of laminated food items, such as turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and rolls.
• Dramatic Play Area: Place the laminated food items in the dramatic play area, along with play plates, utensils, and tablecloths.
• Student Engagement: Encourage students to create their own Thanksgiving dinner plates by selecting and arranging the food items.

Option 2: Arts and Crafts

• Food Cutouts: Provide students with pre-cut shapes of various Thanksgiving foods.
• Creative Assembly: Allow students to color, decorate, and cut out the food items.
• Thanksgiving Plate: Have students glue the food items onto a paper plate to create their own personalized Thanksgiving dinner.

Benefits for Students:
Both approaches offer a multitude of benefits for students:
Cognitive Development:

• Problem-Solving: Students must decide which foods to include on their plates, considering their preferences and dietary restrictions.
• Decision-Making: They can practice making choices about food portions and combinations.
• Sequencing: Students can sequence the steps involved in preparing a Thanksgiving meal, from cooking to serving.

Social-Emotional Development:

• Cooperation: Students can work together to set up the dramatic play area or assist each other with the arts and crafts project.
• Communication: They can discuss their food choices, preferences, and Thanksgiving traditions with peers.
• Empathy: By imagining themselves as hosts of a Thanksgiving dinner, students can develop empathy for others.

Language Development:

• Vocabulary: Students can learn new vocabulary related to Thanksgiving, such as "turkey," "stuffing," and "cranberry sauce."
• Sentence Structure: They can practice using descriptive language to describe the appearance, taste, and smell of different foods.
• Storytelling: Students can create stories about their Thanksgiving experiences, incorporating the food items they have chosen.

Fine Motor Skills:

• Cutting: The arts and crafts approach provides opportunities for students to practice cutting skills.
• Gluing: Students can develop their fine motor skills by gluing the food items to the plate.
• Manipulating Objects: In the dramatic play area, students can practice manipulating the laminated food items and utensils.

By participating in this activity, students can develop a deeper understanding of Thanksgiving traditions, enhance their creativity, and strengthen various cognitive, social-emotional, and language skills.

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Elevate your theatre productions with our Play and Musical Production Transitions Sheet Template—a must-have tool for directors, stage managers, and theatre educators alike! This versatile Google Sheets template is specifically designed to streamline the planning and execution of scene transitions in your play or musical.

Key Features:

• Pre-Formatted for Two Acts: Our template comes ready with space for two acts, each containing up to ten scenes. This structured format offers a clear overview of your entire production!
• Editable and Customizable: Need to add or remove scenes? No problem! The template is fully editable, allowing you to tailor it to your unique production needs.
• Example Page Included: To help you get started, we've included an example page demonstrating how to effectively utilize the template.
• Printable and Visually Clear: Designed with clarity in mind, this template is easy to print, making it a practical tool for stage managers to plan transitions effortlessly.
• Educational Use: Beyond its practical application, this template also serves as an excellent class activity. Use it to teach students about the intricacies of stage management or to assess script reading skills, especially for those with a technical inclination.

Whether you're a seasoned director or an educator looking to engage students in theatre production, this template is an invaluable resource. Get ready to take your theatre program from classroom to curtain with ease and efficiency!
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This product will allow your students to easily understand and analyze Macbeth's "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" soliloquy in Act 5 Scene 5 of Macbeth by breaking it down line-by-line!

Instruct your students to fold the paper in half the long way, and to cut along the black lines into the midline of the paper. They will end up with a long, skinny version of the soliloquy on the front of the flaps and analysis question inside.

As they read the soliloquy, they will peel back the flap to reveal questions that ask them to analyze the text for imagery, tone, diction, syntax, personification, metaphor, theme, and alliteration.

This product is perfect for your students' interactive notebooks, as an in-class activity, or for homework.

This is a play script for Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'. It tells the story of a mean, old man named Ebenezer Scrooge, who runs a dark and miserable business. His workers are under-paid and over-worked, especially his assistant Bob Cratchett.

It is Christmas eve and his Bob asks for the day off to spend time with his family, and sick child – Tiny Tim. Scrooge almost refuses but decides to just dock his pay for the day. Then, that evening he gets a visit from his previous business partner – another miserable person called Jacob Marley.

Marley tells him he needs to change his ways or end up with the same fate as him; he tells him how he will be visited by three ghosts that night. The ghosts visit and show Scrooge various things that upset him enough to change his ways.

After the visits of the ghosts Scrooge wakes up on Christmas day a changed man and tries to put right all the wrongs he has caused over the previous decades!

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There are song recommendations throughout the script and roles for 19 speaking parts, with extra parts for up to 30 students. The play is around 40-50 minutes long.

I hope you have fun with it!

If you are unsure whether it will suit your class, download a free preview and give it a go!

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There are also a few more Christmas play scripts in my store including:

• Holly the Christmas Elf
• Santa's Successor
• A Christmas Carol (A School Remix)
• A Christmas Carol (Traditional Version)
• The Grouch

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Teach your students about conflict management through this engaging Passive, Assertive, or Aggressive AVID improv game. This would be perfect to pair with your passive, assertive, or aggressive lesson OR used as a fun team building game. This is also a great way for students to practice their public speaking skills.

Directions:

• Each slide will have a number and that number represents how many actors will participate in the improv.
• Actors will be given a challenge to act out a different scenario and will decide who plays what role as a team.
• Actors should draw a card to decide if they are playing a passive, assertive, or aggressive role.
• They must portray a passive, assertive, or aggressive tone as they act out the scenario.
• The student audience will try to guess what tone each actor is portraying.

*consider having audience teams and points

What's Included:

• 1 direction slide
• 1 teach slide with definitions and examples of passive, assertive, and aggressive behaviors
• 15 scenario slides

Some Scenario Examples:

• At a police station being interrogated
• Girl Scouts selling cookies to someone
• News anchor just before the apocalypse

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This adorable Woodland Animals Paper Crown Headbands Printable by “The Fun Sheep” is a delightful addition for a charming school craft project that kids will absolutely adore

With these Paper Crowns, children can step into the shoes of their favorite forest creatures. It's the perfect activity to celebrate learning about animals, making it a fantastic choice for an end-of-year project or any time you want to make your lessons more fun and exciting

What comes in the product:

- SET OF 6 Paper Hat templates (6 Color + 6 Black & white version)

- Set includes: Beaver, Fox, Hedgehog, Owl, Rabbit, Skunk

- 12 pages to print

- A4 paper Size

- Best to print on card stock (Colors will vary depending on printer used)

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In this lesson, students learn interesting facts about the modern Broadway composer, Leonard Bernstein and his work, as they complete several projects including a WebQuest (Internet Scavenger Hunt) to answer questions about the topic. A complete answer key is provided for the WebQuest for easy grading, along with resources for both teachers and students. The student questions are included in both a print version and a digital (editable) version to make it easy for students to complete the lesson digitally or on paper. Then, students research their choice of one of his famous musicals and create a presentation or a video about it using their choice of Web 2.0 tools such as Adobe Creative Express (formerly Adobe Spark), eMaze, Canva, etc. (all are free, no download needed) or by using Microsoft Office or Google Apps. A full list of software/technology options is listed in the student lesson instructions and includes links to tutorials. For classrooms with limited technology, this lesson can be completed with students working in pairs or small groups. The completed presentations can be shared with the rest of the class if the teacher chooses.

This lesson is intended to be an introduction to the topic and was designed for middle school (grades 6-8) but could be used in high school as well. This lesson could be used in a music, drama, history or technology class and is also a great lesson to leave for a substitute teacher!

Files included:

· Teacher & Student Resources

· Learning about Leonard Bernstein WebQuest Activity (print and
editable digital files included)

· Learning about Leonard Bernstein WebQuest Answer Key

· Musical Compositions of Leonard Bernstein Project Expectations with Rubric

Approximate Lesson Duration:

· WebQuest - 1 (50 minute) class period

· Presentation / Video Project (including research) – 2-4 (50 minute) class periods

· Optional: additional time for students to present their project to the class (time will vary depending on class size).

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Twelfth Night incorporates many classic elements of comedic theater. At the core of its structure lies a network of complex romantic liaisons (Orsino loves Olivia, Olivia is smitten with Cesario and later Sebastian, Viola has feelings for Orsino, while Sir Andrew and Malvolio are attracted to Olivia); disguise (the plot centers around Viola disguising herself as a male servant to survive after being shipwrecked in Illyria); mistaken identities (Viola and Sebastian are twins so alike that nobody can tell them apart); trickery and mischief; a rich offering of song and dance; the satire of hypocrisy, excess, and arrogance; a fleeting period of chaos and confusion; concluding with a resolution where all misunderstandings are resolved and three marriages take place.

This ebook features an extensive lesson plan focused on 'Twelfth Night' and includes multiple activities intended to last at least 90 minutes. A unique printable worksheet for learners is included, along with the answer guide.

Dive into the festive spirit of Pancake Day and Shrove Tuesday with these engaging Paper Craft Crown Templates, perfect for learners in kindergarten, preschool & early elementary. This hands on art set offers 6 black & white designs. Ideal for classroom activities, morning work, centers or as a creative task for early finishers. Transform your students learning into an interactive celebration of Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday, making it an unforgettable part of their educational journey.

Ways to use these crown crafts:

1. Literacy Integration: Integrate the Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday crown craft into literacy lessons by having your students write short stories or poems about Pancake Day and then present them wearing their crowns.
2. Math Connections: Incorporate math lessons by challenging students to solve pancake-themed math problems before they earn pieces of their crown to color and assemble.
3. Cultural Studies: Use the crown-making activity as an opportunity to teach students about the history and significance of Shrove Tuesday and how it is celebrated in different parts of the world. After the discussion, students can decorate their crowns with symbols or phrases that reflect what they've learned about the traditions and practices of various cultures on this day.
4. Community Building: You can use these crafts to foster a sense of community and teamwork in the classroom by organizing a Pancake Day parade or a crown-wearing ceremony.

Side Pieces Included:

1. Pancakes: Stack 'Em High!
2. Syrup and Smiles on Shrove Tuesday.
3. Flip, Flip, Hooray for Pancake Day!
4. Batter Up for Shrove Tuesday Fun!
5. Flipping Fun on Shrove Tuesday!

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This resource features two fun, interactive activities to bring Shakespeare's famous tragedy of ambition and guilt, Macbeth, into the current day! In this 50 minute lesson plan with accompanying materials, your classroom will transform into a real life "tweeter-world" in which students will create tweeter accounts for characters in the play and interact with one another through their tweeter pages. The Snap Chatter worksheet and assignment is perfect for an engaging homework or sub-plan that your students will look forward to working on and sharing with their friends. Your students will thank you for offering such fun ways to connect with the play and will not even realize how much they are learning by digging deep into the text. Both activities work perfectly for a Friday or any day that students need a mental break and a chance to tap into their creativity!

Product Includes:

• Meticulously-explained lesson plan
• 2-Page Tweeter graphic organizer in color and in black and white
• Snap Chatter graphic organizer and assignment

This is the perfect activity for when a school vacation is coming up and you’re scrounging for lesson ideas. I always like to use it prior to a break; while so many other classes are watching movies, you have a practically hands-free lesson that your students (and administration) will love!

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⭐ Macbeth "Silent Conversation" Quote Pass Activity

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Get students involved in your class reading or begin writing their own skits! This product allows students to participate in your classes more through SKITS & READER'S THEATRE! This product can be used for 6th - 12th grade students. Check it out!

This Product Includes:

1. 2 STYLES of WORKSHEET ACTIVITIES

2. 4+ Pages of Clarification and Explanation if Uses of this Item

will help to make your classroom GREAT!

Nutcracker Ballet Mini Introduction Lesson

Extension chant to the book "One Lonely Fish". A great addition to this book which does not have too many words and perfect for keeping a steady beat!

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