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A series of readers theater-style short stories from Classroom Cereal. 

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Classroom Cereal meets readers theater

Classroom Cereal is proud to present Cereal Theater, a series of readers theater-style short stories for middle schoolers. Just like the original Classroom Cereal series, each story unfolds piece by piece, this time across the script's four scenes, and the larger saga plays out throughout the year. No grammatical mistakes to find in these stories. Just divvy up the roles and have fun reading. 

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Welcome to Cereal Theater

We're not in Fairview anymore. Elsewhere in the Classroom Cereal universe exists a sleepy small town called Dover. Dover has secrets of its own, and over the course of the first season of Cereal Theater, a cast of characters from Dover and its James A. Garfield Middle School will work to discover them. They'll tell their stories in script form. Each story is a four-scene play written by someone from the town. The drama centers around a vacant building on Randolph Street that was once a thriving community theater, until one mysterious Halloween night in 1990. Can our playwrights uncover the truth of the abandoned theater, while discovering and celebrating their own talents and passions in the process?

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The debut season of Cereal Theater will feature 10 stories/scripts available as PDFs and Google Slides. Each one will be about 12 pages long, and like the Classroom Cereal stories you know and love, they'll be perfect for all of the middle grades. Also, every script will come with a 10-question comprehension quiz, available as a PDF, Google Slide, and Google Form. And of course, the stories will be released serial style, a new one each month from September 2022 to June 2023! 

Stories/Scripts
Script 1: "The Return Of The Hall Monitor"
Dominic DeFreeze used to serve as Garfield Middle School's faithful hall monitor, until he retired. Or was he fired? When a severe weather drill turns actual emergency, Dominic must overcome his demons to become the hero once more. 
Script 2: "After Dark At The Randolph Street Community Stage"
The abandoned theater on Randolph Street has long haunted the small town of Dover. A boy named Bradley Honnaker disappeared there on Halloween night, 1990. If Raven wants to prove she's really the school's queen of terror, she'll have to visit the theater on Halloween, when Bradley's ghost is said to appear. 
Script 3: "Cory: An Origin Story"
Cory likes superheroes, not sports. He's creative, not courageous. But then he starts getting signs that he might have inherited superpowers from his great uncle. The annual Malloy Family Thanksgiving Football Game is almost here. Does Cory have the power to tell his big cousins he wants out?
Script 4: "Me and Mount Mistletoe"
A long, isolated winter break at Uncle Jake's peaceful Montana ranch. Mr. William Trusk knows it will be the perfect time to finish his memoirs. But when a blizzard leaves him and two ranch hands stranded inside a mountain cabin, William realizes some things are more important than writing. 
Script 5: "TUFFS vs. Techs"
Have you read The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton? Katrina has, and it reminds her of a real-life rumble between two totally opposite crews at James A. Garfield Middle School. Or are the TUFFS and the Techs so different after all? 
Script 6: "One Day At The Stage"
One day at the abandoned theater on Randolph Street, a cast of eighth graders is rehearsing Erica's new play. The rehearsal, like Erica's script, is a total disaster. But despite the chaos, the crew realizes something. Maybe one day, with enough practice, the stage can make a comeback. 
Script 7: "The Comma Club"
The crew is psyched to start a drama club at Garfield Middle School, just like the original one from the 1980s and 90s. But one teacher was a member of that club when she was a student at GMS, and she says forming a new one would be dangerous, maybe even deadly. 
Script 8: "Ghosts of Randolph Street"
Before he disappeared on Halloween night, 1990, Bradley Honnaker was a regular eighth grader and the leader of the Randolph Street Players. Then he started seeing signs of an ancient curse on the Randolph Street Community Stage. What really happened to Bradley? This script is all he left behind. 
Script 9: "The Trial of Mr. Trusk"
Just weeks from his retirement, Garfield Middle School's longtime English teacher is on trial for stealing a school bus. Or did he merely borrow it? To prove his innocence and save his pension, Mr. Trusk will need a busload of witnesses to come to his defense.  
Script 10: "Big City, Big Stage"
In the Cereal Theater finale, the town of Dover is stoked for a series of summer shows at their revitalized community theater. But just before the opening curtain, one cast member goes way off script, determined to bring these stories to an audience far beyond Dover alone.
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Get Cereal Theater as part of the $30/year subscription

Cereal Theater comes as part of the $30/year Classroom Cereal subscription.

Your subscription gets you...

  • Scripts

All 10 readers theater-style stories. Available as a PDF and a Google Slide. 

  • Quizzes

A 10-question comprehension quiz for each script. Available as a PDF, Google Slide, and auto-grading Google Form. 
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