Readers’ Theater for Les Miserables:
Key: Read aloud! Read from the script and read with expression! Build confidence in reading and even
enthusiasm for reading aloud!
1. 6-7 people in a group (editors for script; narrator; performers; cameraman; post-producer)
2. Mission: Create your own dialogue based on the assigned chapters. See Appendix I for reference.
3. Schedule:
W1 (7/29-8/4) write the script (first draft)
W2 (8/5-8/11) revise the script (final draft)
W3 (8/12-8/18) practice (rehearsal) + shoot the clip
W4 (8/19-8/21) finish the shot and subtitle the clip
8/22 (Thir.) premiere in class
8/23 (Fri.) Top 3 Best Films Election
Award:
第一名：嘉獎 1 支與平時成績加 3 分
Punishment:
8/4 之前沒有交 first draft 者，整組平時成績扣 1 分
第二名：平時成績加 2 分
第三名：平時成績加 1 分
8/22 課堂無法呈現 clip 者，整組平時成績扣 1 分
影片沒有字幕者，整組平時成績亦扣 1 分
4. How to start?
4.1 Decide contents; list the plots for your play by using graphic organizer 
4.2 Make an outline for your play
conflict or climax
Exposition
resolution
4.3 Based on 4.1 & 4.2, decide characters/performers for your RT. How many narrators will be needed?
4.4 Select a leader out and make a practical schedule which everyone is sure to follow.
5. When you are creating your script,
5.1 Write your play in dialogue based on the contents your decide (4.1 & 4.2).
5.2 Be loyal to the reading contents in your novel; otherwise, your audience may have difficulty following.
5.3 Make good use of the words and phrases appearing in the assigned chapters and mark them in your
script.
5.4 Examine whether your dialogue can make your audiences understood—if it is logical enough.
5.5 Humor and creativity are welcome, but abusive language and indecent scenarios are definitely
unaccepted.
6. Before you shoot the clip,
6.1 Practice, practice and practice, since practice makes perfect!  Rehearse again and again!
6.2 Find a proper digital camera. Your smart phone is NOT suggested unless you can show your clip with
high quality.
7. When you are performing in the readers’ theater,
7.1 You are allowed to read from the script.
7.2 Please read as clearly as possible.
7.3 Read with confidence and expression. (Read with emotion.)
7.4 Work cooperatively with your partners. (Take turns properly.)
7.5 Slight acting on the stage is welcome.
8. Rubric for this project
Criteria
Outstanding
20
Accomplished
15
Needs improvement
10
Unsatisfactory
5
1. Script
Your script is
written following
the directions
(5.1-5.5). Besides,
no big grammatical
errors are found.
What’s more, it is
also a creative play.
Your script is
written following
the directions
(5.1-5.5). However,
some grammatical
errors are found.
Your script lacks
some required
elements listed from
direction 5.1 to 5.5.
Some grammatical
errors are also found.
Your script does
not match the
requirements
listed from 5.1 to
5.5. Many
grammatical
errors are found.
2. Clip
Volume
Every character
consistently speaks
Someone speaks
loudly enough
Many speak too soft
to hear.
It’s hard for
audiences to hear
loudly enough for
audience to hear.
while some speaks
too soft to hear.
what they are
talking about.
3. Clip
Every word is
Pronunciation pronounced
Clarity
correctly and easily
understood.
Most words are
pronounced
correctly and easily
understood.
Some words are
pronounced
incorrectly, too fast
or too slow.
Many words are
pronounced
wrongly and hard
to understand.
4. Clip
Expression &
Emotion
Every character
consistently reads
with confidence
and appropriate
Characters read
with confidence
but sometimes
without
Characters read with
little or no
expression.
Every character
reads in a casual,
reckless way.
expression.
appropriate
expression.
Every character can
take turns
accurately on a
consistent basis.
Sometimes each
role can take turns
accurately while
sometimes can’t.
5. Clip
Reads in turn
Characters take turns There are too
rarely on a consistent many pauses or
basis.
blunders in
between.
We are class ________, Group _______. Group members are
Appendix I
Score
Narrator:
Sample Script
An adaptation from the passage of B2L5
Jim and her wife got into another fight 單字 over the socks and shirts everywhere in the living
room again.
Jim’s wife:
Hey, your socks and shirts are everywhere.
Jim:
Oh…
Jim’s wife:
I say, you put your socks and shirts everywhere in the living room AGAIN! Did you hear me?
Jim didn’t say anything, with his eye closed 句型. Jim’s wife keeps talking to him, but he seemed
Narrator:
to hear nothing.
Jim’s wife:
We have been married for two years, and you never put your socks and shirts in the right
place. Why did you do this on purpose? 創意
Narrator:
Jim still said nothing.
Jim’s wife:
I know! I have already known that you don’t love me anymore!
Jim:
Enough! Stop nagging! I’m stressed out!
Narrator:
Jim’s wife was angry and upset. She went to her room. She called her best friend Angela. She
complained to Angela about 單字 what Jim did to her and how bad Jim was!
Angela:
Hello?
Jim’s wife:
Hi, Angela. It’s me, Cathy! Jim and I had a quarrel again!
Angela:
What’s wrong with you guys?
Jim’s wife:
When I was talking to him, he didn’t pay attention to me. What exactly made me angry was
that he said stop nagging! Don’t you think he was so mean to me? I think he didn’t love me
anymore and probably fell in love with other girls! 創意
Angela:
Sweetie! It is not a big deal. You are too emotional
句子
單字
創意
Could you please just be quiet for a moment?
單字
. Men and women are born different
! Didn’t you hear of relationship experts, Dr. Gungor’s and Dr. Amen’s theories
課文中提到的理論
課文
?
Jim’s wife:
No! Never. What’s so special about them?
Angela:
They said that men’s and women’s brains are simply different. It is not easy for men to say
sorry 句型. You can goggle them on the Internet, and you will find it interesting.
Jim’s wife:
OK, I will. Actually, I don’t mind picking up the socks and shirts or cleaning up the house. I just
want Jim to say something nice to me.
Angela:
Sweetie. I don’t think it is your fault or Jim’s fault. And it doesn’t matter who is the first to say
sorry 課文句子改造.
Jim’s wife:
Yeah! I guess I can bridge the gap
Angela:
Good girl! You are smart! There are no winners or losers in a relationship. There are only
lovers in a relationship 提供兩性相處之道.
Jim’s wife:
You are right. Thanks for sharing. I’m better now. Bye.
Angela:
Good luck. Bye!
打破性別顆板印象：由女生主動
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