Author: Bad Wolf Press

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Published: 2011-11-30

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ISBN-13: 9781886588561

WHAT IT IS: This fun and hilarious musical play helps you teach the standards while bringing your classroom to life! Easy-to-do play comes with script, audio CD, and teacher's guide. NO music or drama experience is required¿you don't have to sing or play a note! Go big and perform on stage, keep it simple with a classroom performance, or simply do reader's theater in class. No fancy sets, costumes, or performance spaces are needed, so it's all up to you! Flexible casting for 8-40 students and permission to edit the script and songs make it easy to tailor the play to the needs of your class and community. Your purchase of one copy per teacher includes permission to photocopy the script for students. /// WHAT IT TEACHES: All about the motivations for and consequences of European exploration, 1000-1600s. 35 minutes; grades 3-8. /// SYNOPSIS: The Best News Show Ever team has discovered a flood of people sailing away from Europe for uncharted destinations. Why are they leaving? What are they hoping to find? To get the answers, our scrappy reporters will track down Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Montezuma and Atahualpa, Ferdinand Magellan, Francis Drake, and many others. And don't forget Leif Ericson, who's on a mission to remind us that the history books don't always play fair. /// WHAT IT DOES: "European Explorers in the New World" is a great complement to your curriculum resources in social studies. And, like all Bad Wolf Press plays, this show can be used to improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, performance and speaking skills, class camaraderie and teamwork, and school engagement and parental involvement¿all while enabling students to be part of a truly fun and creative experience they will never forget!