24 Exciting Plays for Ancient History Classes

Students get personally involved in events and cultures from ancient history with these entertaining dramatizations. This reproducible book gives you 24 short plays designed primarily for in-class readings of 10-15 minutes. They also can be adapted easily for stage presentations.

Dramatizations in the book include:

• Problems of Early Peoples
• Life in Ancient Sumer
• Egypt, 2500 B.C.
• Abraham, Monotheism and the Covenant
• Kush, Africa's Oldest Interior Empire
• Hammurabi and His Law Code
• The Shang Dynasty: The Birth of Chinese Civilization
• Crete, Home of Europe's First Civilization: The Minoan
• The Israelites Flee Egypt and Receive the Law
• Ruth of the Old Testament
• The Life and Times of David
• Life in the Ancient Western Hemisphere
• Daniel, the Prophet
• The Buddha and the Five Visitors
• Ancient Athens: Citizen Debate
• Ancient Greece: 432-399 B.C.
• Alexander the Great: Dream to the Winds
• Asoka and the Mauryan Empire
• Ancient China: The Ch'in and Han Dynasties
• Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
• New Testament Times: The Parable of the Good Samaritan
• Rome, A.D. 67
• Christianity and the Roman Empire in the West