Tracy's English Reader’s Theater

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Sunday May 31st from Tracy

ENGLISH READER’S THEATER NEWSLETTER WEEK OF JUNE 1, 2020

Monday: June 1 - Cinderella, a 9 part RT. .

Wednesday: June 3 - . Review of last weeks plays and discuss possible re-writes :-

1. The Water Cycle RT: It was pointed out that it should just be the two drops (characters) telling the story with a few narrative parts. That would mean a re-organising of the dialog along with a little rewrite. Let’s see what you come up with.

2. Three Billy Goats Gruff RT: Everyone felt the ending was abrupt and dull. Actually it is not the original ending of this story. Your task is to take the play from when Big Billy Goat Gruff and the Troll meet and rewrite the ending

.Friday: June 5 - The Legend of Slappy Hooper: An American Tall Tale for 8 or more readers. PDF attached.

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Sunday 24th May, from Tracy

My selection this week is a mixture of readings:-

Monday:  Neba Grace and I will be hosting this meeting together.  She will share her recent experience of losing her grandmother, their funeral customs, and the difficulty you face when you aren’t able to be with loved ones at times like this.  Her Grandmother loved cats.  Grace sent me a story which we have turned into a Reader’s Theater script.  There are 9 parts

Wednesday:  Some ask how they can use this approach in other curriculum areas so we will be doing a Reader’s Theater on the water cycle.  This has many parts for reading opportunities.

Friday:  We are going to have a bit of fun with a story called “The Three Billy Goats Gruff”.  7 parts   There is a mean Troll in this story who won’t allow the goats to cross his bridge.

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Sunday 17th May, from Tracy.

Good morning club members!

It is exciting and encouraging to see how we are growing in numbers. This week’s schedule is as follows:

Monday: A tale from Ireland, “The Giant’s Wife” with 7 reading parts.

Wednesday: We will do something a little different. Catherine sent me a short story by Isaac Asimov called “The Fun They Had”. I have attached it here. We have written a reader’s theater script (9 parts) from this story which I will share on Wednesday.

Friday: “The Princess Mouse” from Finland - 8 parts

I want to express my thanks to you all for making this time so special. If you have ideas, suggestions, or feedback of any kind, "I’m all ears”. Also, if you have any favorite stories that I can download or that you can send, I will start to turn some into reader’s theater scripts. At a later date, if there is interest, we will work on one together during our group so you can also begin to develop scripts!

Remember, we meet Monday, Wednesday and Fridays at 10 am EST

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Hope to see you all on Monday!

texts here:- google doc sharing, no download

The Giants Wife

The fun they had

The Princess Mouse

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video from Fridays session here

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I'm quick and smart as I can be. Try and try, but you can't catch me!-

This week’s Reader’s Theater is “The Adventures of Mouse Deer”, a tale of Indonesia and Malaysia, as told by Aaron Shepard.

Texts here

http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE35.html

http://www.aaronshep.com/stories/R01.html#song

“Mouse Deer sings his song as he walks through the forest looking for tasty fruits and roots and shoots. Though he is small, he is not afraid. He knows that many big animals want to eat him -- but first they have to catch him!

Over the week we will be reading a series of 5 plays to find out how Mouse Deer gets the best of his enemies -- Tiger, Crocodile, and the most dangerous animal of all, Farmer! We will also compare this Mouse Deer in this folktale to Anansi, which we read earlier.

*Tentative schedule:

Monday: We will first learn the Mouse Deer song, lyrics at the top.

Introduction: pgs. 2-4 4 parts

Story 1: pgs. 5-10 6 parts

Wednesday:

Story 2 pgs. 11-14 6 parts

Friday Story 3 pgs. 15-20 6 parts

Ending pgs. 21-22 4 parts

*The schedule is just a suggestion. We come together to learn from each other, refine our English, and most important, to have fun.

Looking forward to seeing you all Monday, at 9:00 am EST at out zoom link here.

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Room opens at 8:45 for meet and greet.