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Black History for Kids Play, Not Alone

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Cover of Black History Heroes: Not Alone, a Rap Opera for Kids play script, revised 02/04/2021, with publisher logo
Title page to show the class before casting the play
Character list: Child, Classmate, Letitia Woods and readers for Rosa Parks, Henry Brown, Jackie Robinson, Frederick Douglass
Use to assign roles and discuss each historical figure
Act One script: Classmate excitedly plans a partner history project by phone while Child fakes a bad connection to hang up
Opening scene for a first read-through
Script: Child wants to work alone, naps over history books, and wakes to Letitia Woods urging the value of teamwork
Scene where the guide character enters the story
Script: Letitia Woods corrects Child's myths that Rosa Parks was old, tired and acted alone in the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Pause here to discuss historical myths versus facts
Script: Rosa Parks Reader describes her months of planning and the group effort, with Claudette Colvin, to desegregate buses
Reader role page for the Rosa Parks segment
Script: Henry Brown Reader tells how he escaped slavery by mailing himself in a box and later performed as a magician
Start of the Henry 'Box' Brown segment
Script: Henry Brown credits the Smiths and the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society; Woods urges teaming up across differences
Good stopping point to talk about working with different people
Script: Jackie Robinson Reader notes Moses Fleetwood Walker played MLB first and credits Harold Reese and Branch Rickey
Jackie Robinson segment and lead-in to the next hero
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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