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