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Newsletter:  Monologue Mania! 
 
MAR
24
2020

Dodgeball

 

The attached monologue about dodgeball is a simple elementary one, but there’s an important lesson in it for everybody:  without knowing more about the scene, you really don’t know how to read the monologue and what emotions to convey.

The dodgeball monologue suggests two different scenarios — one in which you are excited to play dodgeball, the other in which you are worried about it.  It’s funny how you can recite the exact same words, yet convey two entirely different moods, based on whichever scenario you choose.  Simply by altering your tone of voice, your pacing, your facial expressions, and your body language, you can completely change the feel of the piece.

This is why it is so critical before performing a monologue from a play to read the entire play first.  Until you understand the character and know the context of the monologue, you do not know how to perform it. 

Besides 30 sets of paired monologues from different perspectives (like yesterday’s bubble gum monologues), Ups and Downs has 20 monologues like this, with two different suggested scenarios.

Teachers, we hope you’re encouraging all your students to sign up for our newsletter here.  For more tips on how to share these monologues with students or guidelines about sharing monologue performances with us, see our first Monologue Mania newsletter.

Thanks for all your kind words letting us know that you’re finding Monologue Mania helpful.  We love hearing from you and invite you to incorporate these monologues however you need in your virtual lesson plans.  We’ll have monologues for older students later this week.

Stay well!

Here is today’s monologue:

https://www.PioneerDrama.com/Newsletter/Teaching_Resources/Dodgeball-Different_scenarios.pdf


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These 100 monologues invite elementary school students to explore a wide range of emotions, developing their social‑emotional learning as well as their acting skills.

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