Reader's Theater Classics: Famous People, Famous Words

Reader's Theater Classics: Famous People Famous Words

Engage middle school students in active learning about historic authors, documents, and events.

24 multi-leveled scripts provide multiple cross-text perspectives on diverse eras, cultures, and genres.

Link biography and drama to primary source documents.
Develop cross-text analysis and evidence-based answers.
Actively explore diverse opinions and points of view.
Make complex text more accessible and comprehensible.

Alice Paul: The 19th Amendment - 6-Pack WW-Y14374

Voting-rights activist Alice Paul was imprisoned in 1917, along with her womenÕs suffrage cohorts. There she embarked on an uncompromising hunger strike that helped to bring their cause to a turning point.

$39.00

Grade 5 - 9
Abraham Lincoln, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates - 6-Pack WW-Y14373

It’s the middle of the night in August 1858 before the second debate for the U.S. Senate seat. Stephen Douglas and his challenger, Abraham Lincoln, are up discussing their political strategies and policies with their advisers.

$39.00

Grade 5 - 9
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The New Deal - 6-Pack WW-Y14378

It is Saturday, March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression. Like so many other families, the Williamses and Gorskis of Paterson, NJ, are facing unemployment, eviction, bread lines, and other hard times.

$39.00

Grade 5 - 9
George Washington: Farewell Address - 6-Pack WW-Y14380

George Washington, first president of the United States, was respected by opposing sides of the young country’s political debates, even when those debates became heated. Washington was known as down-to-earth, fair, and honest.

$39.00

Grade 5 - 9
Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives - 6-Pack WW-Y14383

Muckraking photojournalist Jacob Riis brings his camera into the slums of New York City’s Lower East Side in the late 1880s and hardened young immigrants help him in his quest to turn an urban eyesore into a welcome patch of green.

$39.00

Grade 5 - 9
John Muir: Our National Parks - 6-Pack WW-Y14386

John Muir devoted his life to being a trailblazer for America’s conservation movement. In 1913, he finds himself in one of his fiercest battles to preserve the environment and Yosemite National Park. Will he save the Hetch Hetchy Valley?

$39.00

Grade 5 - 9
Mohandas Gandhi: "Satyagraha" or Truth-Force - 6-Pack WW-Y14387

It is April 1930 in India. Philosopher and political activist Mohandas Gandhi an his followers end their three-week march to the sea to gather salt. This act of nonviolent defiance against the British rulers brings India's quest for independence to the attention of the world.

$39.00

Grade 5 - 9
Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light - 6-Pack WW-Y14389

In newly independent India, a European-born nun has a radical idea: to leave the comfort of her convent and to live among, and help, the poorest of the poor. But will a skeptical archbishop squash Mother Teresa’s dream?

$39.00

Grade 5 - 9
Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence - 6-Pack WW-Y14391

Thomas Jefferson joins Revolutionary leaders Ben Franklin and John Adams for a meal in a local tavern on the evening of July 2, 1776, just before the Declaration of Independence will hopefully be signed.

$39.00

Grade 5 - 9
Thomas Paine: Common Sense - 6-Pack WW-Y14392

It’s October 1775. The Revolutionary War has started. But even though British soldiers attacked colonial militias at Lexington and Concord, most colonists still want to make peace with England.

$39.00

Grade 5 - 9