Thank you for caring deeply about the learning of your students and your own development as a lead learner! We hope these 5 example dramatic scripts could help you design a “Blue Book Showcase”, and will add a little “spice” to your community in whatever way you choose to use them.

You will see each script option blends the strands for Challenge 3 Semester 1, with two debating politicians referencing Lincoln and Caesar, including a pianist for some music theory, & poets referring to chemistry and creation! It's a work of my imagination that I hope you truly enjoy with your students!

These scripts are for 6 players and each of them takes about 15 minutes to perform. Feel free to have your students add their own creative touches, and reach out to me if you need any help customizing these for your crew!

Poetry Structure, Rhythm, Schemes & Types with practice guides for students of all ages! 

Learn Poem Structure, Poem Meter & Rhythm, Poem Schemes & Rhyme and Poem Types (With Examples).

Begin to enjoy and create poetry as "music written for the human voice."

This resource comes with direct access to customization help and guidance from it's author, Jeff Pankratz. Just ask!

Shakespeare's plays have captivated audiences for over 400 years because they explore the most fundamental human experiences—love, ambition, jealousy, family conflict, and the search for identity. These timeless themes didn't disappear when we moved from castles to classrooms or from handwritten letters to text messages. The emotions Romeo feels when he sees Juliet, the pressure Hamlet experiences when faced with an impossible choice, or the fierce loyalty Lady Macbeth shows toward her husband's ambitions are just as real and powerful today as they were in Elizabethan England. What makes Shakespeare's work endure isn't the "thee" and "thou" language or the historical settings—it's his incredible ability to capture what it means to be human.

This guide will help you discover that faithfulness to Shakespeare doesn't mean being trapped by his original context. Instead, staying true to his work means honoring the emotional truth, the character motivations, and the universal conflicts he created while finding fresh ways to make them speak to modern audiences. By reimagining these scenes in contemporary settings, you're not betraying Shakespeare—you're doing exactly what theater companies around the world do every day when they set Hamlet in a corporate boardroom or stage Romeo and Juliet in modern-day Verona. You're proving that great storytelling transcends time and place, and that Shakespeare's insights into human nature remain as relevant in the age of social media as they were in the age of the Globe Theatre.

This resource comes with the Powerpoint file to walk your students through the process of re-creating a scene from Shakespeare, while staying faithful to the original text. With your purhcase you have direct access to the author, for step by step coaching and consultation.

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Struggling to lead rich, meaningful discussions with your Classical Conversations Challenge 3 students? You're not alone! Many parents and tutors feel the pressure of facilitating Socratic dialogue while juggling Latin grammar, historical analysis, and those crucial interdisciplinary connections. That's why we created these 45-Minute Classical Discussion Templates for Julius Caesar—practical, ready-to-use guides that help you lead confident, engaging discussions that actually form your students' character and thinking. Whether you're brand new to tutoring or looking to deepen your current approach, these templates give you the structure and questions you need to create transformative classroom moments.

Inside you'll find THREE complete discussion formats for three different styles of classes; 1) A rhetorical skills template, focusing on dialectic principles and thought-organizing skills, 2) the foundational "Choices Have Consequences" template, a character-focused version that helps students see themselves in the ancient narrative, and 3) A debate-driven approach that sharpens rhetorical skills. Each template integrates the Five Canons of Rhetoric with Socratic method, includes Latin exercises that connect to the week's episode, and guides students to synthesize learning across all seven Challenge 3 First Semester subjects. These aren't rigid scripts—they're flexible frameworks that honor classical education principles while giving you the freedom to teach authentically. Ready to move from "hoping it goes well" to "knowing you've got this"? Grab your templates and join parents and tutors who are discovering that leading classical discussions can be both doable and deeply rewarding.

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