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Black History for Kids Play, Not Alone

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Look Inside · 9 pages

Cover of Black History Heroes: Not Alone, labeled 'A Rap Opera for Kids Play' and revised February 4, 2021
Title page of the reader's theater play
Play character descriptions for Child, Classmate, Letitia Woods, and reader roles about four Black history heroes
Character descriptions and historical reader roles
Act One opens the play with a history project phone call; Child imitates static to end the conversation
Act One opening: the partners' phone call
Play script continues as Child rejects group work, falls asleep, and meets Letitia Woods to learn about teamwork
Act One continues: Letitia Woods arrives
Play dialogue introduces Letitia Woods's history doctorate and challenges Child's ideas about Rosa Parks
Act One dialogue: Woods introduces Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks Reader's script describes her civil rights involvement and community efforts against bus segregation
Act One reader account: Rosa Parks
Play script shifts from the bus boycott to Henry Brown Reader's account of escaping slavery inside a mailed box
Act One reader account: Henry Brown begins
Henry Brown Reader's account continues with help for his escape; play dialogue then introduces Jackie Robinson
Act One transition: Henry Brown to Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson Reader's script names Moses Fleetwood Walker, Harold Reese, and Branch Rickey before Child responds
Act One reader account: Jackie Robinson
Attributes
Subject

Creative Arts, Art, Drama

Grades

Grade 3, 4, 5, 6

Types
File

PDF

Editable
No
Author
Rap Opera for Kids!
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About This Product

This resource is a Reader's Theater Play that your students will enjoy! They will learn about Black History Heroes with this drama and enhance their acting skills.

This resource will include:

  • - NOTES TO THE TEACHER

  • - CAST DESCRIPTIONS

  • - SCRIPT

  • - MAP OF STAGE DIRECTIONS

The Black History Heroes that students will act out:

  1. 1. Rosa Parks

  2. 2. Henry Brown

  3. 3. Jackie Robinson

  4. 4. Frederick Douglass

What's Included

1 PDF with 13 ready to print pages

Resource Tags

readers theater play readers theater Black history Black History heroes Black History Month kids play halloween readers theater readers theater for kids

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