doing reader's theater once in a while can shake up the routine and my class was very enthusiastic about performing their short plays. one group had a script that ended like this:
farmer: if you work together you will be strong.
narrator: and the moral of the story is that working together brings strength.
all: the end
the group had decided that the farmer would read the part marked "all". they did a practice in front of the rest of the class and i followed along with my script. the farmer read the last part as, "all the end." i kept a straight face and explained that it said "all" because all the characters should say it together. they nodded that they understood. we tried the last part one more time and sure enough, they all said it loudly and in unison, "ALL THE END!"
