Randall
Players is an after school drama group for third-fifth grade students at
Clarence Randall Elementary School.
This
unique program offers after school tutoring in the areas of reading, listening
and speaking. Each year students begin in October with classroom lessons that
are designed around team-building games, and reading and writing strategies.
Teachers
communicate drama points such as stage directions, reading lines with
expression and what strategies make good readers and writers. Students
participate using vocal and performing arts skills.
Grade
Level Content Expectations/Common Core elements are covered in the areas of
language arts, speaking, and listening as Randall Players start rehearsal in
December and culminates in three evening performances in February.
Some
of the 25 years of performances: “Twas the Week After Christmas”; “Space
Pirates”; “Movin' Thru Michigan”; “A Hero Lies in You”; “Trapped on the Food
Plates”; “Fairly Fractured Fairytales”; “We Are Monsters”; and “Musicville.”
This
year’s play was "Press Start.” Since 2015 the program has purchased
scripts from Beat by Beat Press. Prior to that the students wrote their own
plays.
Randall
won the Michigan School of Educational Excellence Award in 2003 for the Randall
Players program.
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