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Classroom Theater
Kind of Activity:
Role Play
Objective:
Students will act out a brief scene from any day of reading.
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.6
Structure:
Having studied more than half of Richard II, students will now have the opportunity to act out one of their favorite scenes.
First, initiate a brief discussion with the students about the difference between reading a play and reading a novel. A play was not intended primarily to be read like a book is; it was intended to be read by actors and then performed for an audience. Students need to engage with this dimension of the text.
Group students, or allow them to group themselves, into scene...
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