Say Goodnight, Gracie....?

Well I don't know exactly what your teachers looking for, but I think you should do something really creative like a play. Write a script and pick classmates to act it out. Or you could be a narrator and get kids to pretend they're someone in the book and act it out as you read.

If memory serves (and it usually does) this is a book about Gracie Allen (Mrs. George Burns).

Select a passage from the book, recruit a classmate to help and do a reading as though you were doing an old-time radio show. One of you plays Gracie and the other plays George. There will be no need to memorize, since the actors in the radio dramas of the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's read right from the script in front of the studio, but you WILL want to rehearse to get your timing...and be sure the last two lines are:

GEORGE: Say good night, Gracie.

GRACIE: Good night, Gracie.

You might recruit a second student to help who will be the radio announcer who does the segments like "We'll be back right after this message from our sponsor." (All of the classic radio shows were sponsored by someone, whether it was Lux Detergent, or Lucky Strike (sponsored Jack Benny's show), or Campbell's Soups, or Kellogg's (sponsored the Adventures of Superman), or Texaco (Milton Berle and Bob Hope were sponsored by Texaco).

do a book in a bag!

draw on the bag about parts in the book that were main events or important. and than bring 4-6 objects that can help explain the book. than while your explaining the book you can use the objects to help you and than you can do a little play with the people in your class or even the objects!

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