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= = **The Night's Watch Home Page**

For this lesson there are a number of resources needed for the teacher to provide for students so they can understand how to create a play and tell a story. Through these sub headings teachers will be able to gather what they need to be able to teach students throughout the course of the term. Predominantly a lot of the resources needed are for how to introduce and explain plays to the students is for the very beginning of the term. This is to give students all the knowledge on how to do it so they can create and gain their own story and experience

= Books =

When it comes time to pick a book for the term for students to explore and to create into a play, it is important to pick one which appeals to their Zone of Proximity Difficulty (ZPD) and also so they are able to create a play from it. Popular books that are available and expected to be achieved by a student at a year 6 level are; The Giver, Flowers for Algernon and Bear Grills Adventure stories. Students can be broken into groups and perform a chapter each to ensure that everyone gets a go or, students read short stories like the ones found in Bear Grills Adventure Stories so they all have something different to recreate.

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= Interactive Whiteboard =

This interactive whiteboard exercise teaches students all the ingredients we need to create a story. The program tells the students the story of Cinderella. After the story is finished the programs goes back with the students and explores the setting, characters, sequence, exposition, conflict, climax and resolution. This is a great program to introduce storytelling to your students and, to get your students thinking about how they are going to write their play.

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In addition to this Interactive whiteboard lesson another example is the one found on the learning foundation. This activity links directly with the requirements of scope and sequence for year 6 students by introducing them to how a narrative engages and entertains. Furthermore this activity gives students hands on experience on what feelings a character should experience throughout a narrative.

An interactive whiteboard document found on TES provides a great way of how to introduce script writing to the students. It provides different activities for the students to create a meaning and understanding of what is involved with script writing.

= Programs =

When it comes to introducing the play writing to the students there are a number of programs that can assist you in explaining the process. Final Draft is a script writing program that allows you to create scripts out of all your ideas. Hollywood companies use final draft which is something the teacher might want to say to their students to make them feel like they too are creating something similar to the big film companies.

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=Videos=

A great way of introducing the topic to students for the first time or by getting teachers interested and involved in how to make a play is by showing a video. This YouTube video is taken by the students at Avon public school in Stratford and shows how they put together yearly school plays for the community of Stratford.

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Sometimes having someone explain the way on how to write a play script can tend to be easier for teachers or students to pick up. This small video by Professor John Conlon from eHow explains the basic way of setting out a script and why it is important to set the script in this format.

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