Content Focus: Summarizing

Language Focus: Writing, reading, speaking

Vocabulary Focus:

• Script
• Stage Direction
• Set design
• Dialogue

 

Standards:

• R 6.2: summarizing texts, from a variety of genres. Tp deter,ome a theme or central idea and how it is developed by key supporting details over the course of a text.
• R 6.3 In literary texts, describe how events unfold, as well as how characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
• W6.4 Independently and collaboratively produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are culturally -sustaining and rhetorically authentic to task, purpose, and audience.
• SL 6.4 Communicate clearly and in an engaging manner, considering the audience, purpose and situation.
• SL 6.5 Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify and enhance information.

 

Arts Integration: Set design, acting.

Lesson Objectives: After completing a unit on narrative stories, students will write a short play summarizing their favorite story from the unit, create sets and puppets, and present the play to their class.

Activities: 

• Using a fairy tale as an example, write a short script showing students how to include dialogue and stage directions.
• Students will work in groups and choose their favorite story to turn into a script.
• Once the script is written students will create sets and characters as puppets. Show students ways to have their sets stand up using the table tent method.
• They will practice acting out/reading their scripts. Each group will present to the class their play.

 

Engagement/Introduction:Plays, TV shows, and movies all tell stories. Many times their inspiration comes from books.

Show a script for a famous movie that comes from a book. Have book on hand to show the differences between narrative writing and script writing.

Assessment Procedure: 

• Students will turn in their scripts for grading.
• Presentation of plays are graded for speech grades. Plays can also be recorded.

 

Materials:

• Paper, plain or colored
• Glue
• Scissors
• Coloring tools: crayons, colored pencils, or markers

 

Contact: Kimberly Bohlman (kimberly.bohlman@oshkosh.k12.wi.us)