Each year I work with my students to produce a Thanksgiving play. We share the play with their parents after the traditional 'feast day' in the cafeteria. This year many students had new ideas about the play. We had all kinds of new roles. We had King James, Little Dove, and jack & Annie from the Magic Tree house! We also had a student play his ancestor who was aboard the Mayflower. Our resources included the If You Were There book on Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving on Thursday from the magic Tree house series and several short movies from our United Streaming collection. Because the play would have been very long if performed live, I decided to take still shots of each scene and asked students to record their speaking parts. The result was a product enjoyed by both parents and students. The images allowed us to see faces and hear the voices clearly. It's just under 7 minutes long but may give you (teachers) some ideas for capturing your own 'plays'. I owe a vote of gratitude to my Parapro Mrs. Foresman and my KSU student teacher for helping to coordinate this effort. I used Photostory 3 but next time I will pull everything into Pinnacle because I can export without doing a file conversion. This file was converted using zamzar.com.
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