In this exciting activity, students research other monologues, write a script, and then perform their monologue about a climate change topic.
Teaching Tips
Positives
This resource promotes various skills such as communication, creativity, confidence, self-expression, writing, and acting.
Students have been provided with a definition of the term "monologue" and a link to various climate monologues for inspiration.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should be taught to speak confidently and audibly when presenting their monologue, so a vocal warm-up exercise might help them prepare.
Teachers can print the student handout or share it with students digitally.
Differentiation
Teachers could help students in writing the script by setting guidelines for the topics, storylines, or length.
Advanced students could be tasked to write a monologue about a specific climate change issue, such as climate anxiety, climate migration, national security concerns, sea level rise, or species extinctions.
Before students present their monologue, teachers could help students practice speaking in various pitches, tones, and volumes to display different moods and feelings.
Support students that may want to share their own personal climate change story by making sure that all students in the class treat each other with respect.
The resource provides students the requisite skills in writing and delivering a monologue, a good method to lead in climate conversation. This is recommended for teaching.
Standards
Common Core English Language Arts Standards (CCSS.ELA)
Speaking & Listening (K-12)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.6 Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.6 Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating a command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
Writing (K-12)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
National Core Arts Standards
Visual Arts: Standard 1 - Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
VA:Cr1.1.Ia Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
