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PK-103 FAMOUS PEOPLE OF THE 20TH CENTURY
A Package of 5 Short Scripts About Famous People for $23.98. Download and duplication rights included. No royalties.
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This package provides introduces your students to some of the most famous people of the 20th century. This is another extraordinary "Group Read-Aloud" package of 5 short scripts by teacher/writer Sue Russell. The unit is designed to encourage read-aloud participation while learning some important American history. Discussion topics and short quizzes included for each of the 5 scripts.
These scripts can be used to involve groups from your entire class (or groups from various grades in your entire school) in an activity focusing on famous people of the 20th century. The scripts may be read aloud as Readers Theatre, and are also available as as Class Plays (or Traditional Plays), with lists of props, suggested music and seating plans. They work as great in-class teaching tools or as excellent materials for parent and/or school assembly programs.
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Play 1 Martin Luther King
Readers: Interviewer, Coretta (wife), James Earl Ray (alleged assassin), President Lyndon Johnson, Campaigner, Martin Luther King
From Script Text:
Campaigner: Yes, and that was just the beginning. It took a lot of patience. We were up against white ministers, mayors, governors, police chiefs and judges, all telling us to "Wait". But we were tired of waiting.
King: Indeed. As I said at the time, "Wait! For years I have heard the word ‘Wait!' We have waited more than three hundred and forty years for our rights".
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Play 2 Nelson Mandela
Readers: Nelson Mandela , Winnie (second wife), Desmond Tutu, P.W. Botha (Nationalist Party - hardliner), Nobel Peace Committee, F.W. de Klerk (Nationalist Party - moderate)
From Script Text:
Mandela: Yes, but no one could doubt the huge contribution this churchman has made to our cause! Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless.
De Klerk: Quite right that he should receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984!
Tutu: Just nine years before you received it with Nelson Mandela!
De Klerk: A wonderful moment when the world could witness the coming together of two peoples whom had seemed such worlds apart!
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Play 3 Mahatma Gandhi
Readers: Mahatma Gandhi, Kasturbai (wife), Nehru (Indian prime minister)
From Script Text:
Lakshimi (adopted daughter, an untouchable), Nathuram Godse (assassin), Winston Churchill (British prime minister)
Gandhi: Yes. But I am also a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist and a Jew.
Godse: That's the trouble with you idealists! Always sitting on the fence. "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"! Pah! Another one of your visionary statements! Some of us had to live in the real world!
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Play 4 John Lennon
Readers: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon (son), Mimi (auntie), Paul McCartney, President Nixon
From Script Text:
Nixon: Trouble makers! Pity I didn't get the lot of you deported!
John: Well, you certainly tried hard enough!
Nixon: And can you blame me? Trying to persuade our American youth to vote against war. How low could you stoop?
John: Nothing like as low as you! The first American President forced to resign!
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Play 5 Prominent Women of the 20th Century
Readers: Helen Keller (Helen), Anne Frank (Anne), Marie Curie (Marie), Princess Diana (Di), Margaret Thatcher (Maggie)
From Script Text:
Anne: You mean when the IRA bombed your hotel in Brighton?
Maggie: Yes, that was a lucky escape. The day before my 59th birthday.
Di: But you still insisted on business as usual the next day!
Maggie: Yes, never give in to terrorists!
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