Creating a Role Drama to Analyze Characters in a Text 2

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Students will use drama to analyze characters in the text A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon. After partaking in an interactive read-aloud of the text, students will all take on roles of characters in story. We will step into a role drama where we analyze the major problem present in the story. In character, we will together present possible solutions for the story. Students will then independently write their own ending to the story. We will read the ending of the text aloud and then have a class discussion/reflection about our student devised endings.

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Cultural Characters 3-5

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This lesson invites students to derive inspiration from photographs (portraits and people, historical events and images depicting strife or struggle, etc.) based around a given time period. These images serve as impetus to write monologues and create improvisational skits engaging students in a brand new way!

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Cultural Characters 7-8

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Students use photos that relate to a social studies concept (i.e., country of study, historical person, natural disaster, geographical landmark, religion, or governmental strife) as a springboard to write a first person monologue embodying the person who is pictured. This monologue explores the character’s views on the subject of the second photo that deals with the social studies concept. The monologues are presented in class and other students can interview the characters to explore issues. The second step to this exercise is to get the students on their feet, mimicking the picture. The pair of students bring the photo to life in an improvisation that explores conflict and resolution.

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