Middle/High School Monologues Teaching Students to Read and Write Monologues Welcome to the World of Monologue A Sample Unit of Lessons for Middle and High School Teachers Jefferson County Public Schools Version 2.0 WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF MONOLOGUE By all reports from the field‚ this unit can be a lot of fun for you and your students: • there’s performance • there’s walking in others’ shoes and learning empathy 1 Middle/High School Monologues • there’s connecting to Farris Bueller‚ Bill Cosby
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The poem‚ “Monologue for an Onion” written by Sue Kim‚ the onion is a metaphor and is the whole poem is written about it and based off of it. The basic main viewpoint of the poem is about the feelings and thoughts that onion experiences when being handle by the person or more specifically when it is being cut. The poem revolves around the whole idea of how the onion feels and thinks as the person cuts away at it and how it reflects on the actions of the person and the person themselves. Sue Kim’s
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address by Rita Dove‚ she inspires the graduating class of the University of Virginia to put themselves out in the real world and take risks as she “wishes” challenges on them and prepares them for the uncertainties that come in the future. The repetition of “150%” allows the graduates to understand how crucial it is to always be ready for the unexpected. While others will not know if you’re giving your best effort‚ you will feel it within yourself‚ so it’s important that going into the real world the
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Homeschooling: Solution for Educating Girls in Afghanistan On December 10‚ 1948‚ “the General Assembly of the United Nations declared education a human right” (Kavazanjian 41). In other words‚ every individual has the right to learn and enhance their knowledge. Although most people exercise this right easily‚ others are not so lucky. For example‚ many girls in Afghanistan do not have the means to obtain a primary education. Traditional values‚ poverty and lack of security prevent Afghani girls
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THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE IN TENNYSON’S ULYSSES The greatest Victorian contribution to poetry is certainly the form of the dramatic monologue. A dramatic monologue is defined by various critics as a type of poem in which a single speaker‚ a persona‚ “utters the speech that makes up the whole of the poem‚ in a specific situation at a critical moment.” This speaker addresses and interacts with one or more other people. They are silent but usually identifiable listeners in whose presence the speaker reveals
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To hear about ’being a good person’ And not being one‚ but still growing up? To write songs about love And lend them to the most undeserving? To consider your mother a burden Whose absence had once meant darkness? I’m the greediest person in the world ’Coz I wish to have the biggest treasure.... The days that sped way too fast... I want to lose balance and fall From my little bicycle again.... I want
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concerns and investigations this essay will begin with an explanation of the theory of ‘everyday life’ and précis the concerns of several prominent sociologists who recognised the importance of everyday life in shaping their own philosophies. Using Rita Felski’s example of ‘space’ in everyday life where the division between men’s public work and women’s private work appears
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CHARLIE What do you mean? HEATHER The mushrooms. They are gateways. Gateways to other worlds beyond our own grasp. Worlds that exist within our own to which our eyes cannot see. The mushrooms awaken our souls to see these beautiful places. It lets us know we are not alone in this world. CHARLIE That’s very deep. I’ve never thought about it that way. HEATHER That’s because man has lost touch with old ones and the old world. I have not. CHARLIE Who are the old ones? HEATHER The gods man pray to now are
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To begin‚ the monologue I have chosen is from HAMLET Act 3‚ Scene 1‚ Page 7. Correspondingly‚ the character (Ophelia) who I am playing has a very straightforward goal in her monologue. With this said‚ Ophelia is expressing her lament for Hamlet’s mental deterioration. Ophelia says her monologue to the audience with sadness and extreme distress. For example‚ Ophelia states that Hamlet’s “noble mind is here o’erthrown!” This beginning phrase is significant because it is her explaining how Hamlet’s
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began belting out the tunes of the song‚ amazing the audience with my brilliant monologue. Reality quickly set in. It seems I was rather naïve to think this way because before I could do perform‚ there was much work to be done. For starters‚ I had to rehearse and practice my lines over and over until I memorized them. This was not easy since I had to absorb the essence of the message behind every line of my monologue. “Was I expressing the correct emotions? Was I angry or was I expressing a joyous
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