1. Lockland Middle School 8th Grade
The Little Rock Nine
Lockland Middle School
8th Grade

2. Stage Direction Every play needs great stage direction.
In basketball, the most dangerous person on the floor is the person without the ball.
In theater, the acting that is happening by the characters on stage without lines makes great theater.

3. Stage Direction
The audience and those in the production must know and be able to recognize people, places, and events.
Using our social studies format we will identify these as:
People: characters
Places: setting
Events: stage directions including movement, emotions, technology, sound effects, music, lighting, entrances/exits, transitions, and curtain

4. Prologue People: Host for the Evening (Narrator A)
Places: Old person reflecting on past events, on the side…next to the Central High School marquee
Events: Music: Freedom Song, Technology: PowerPoint of images of Little Rock Nine,

5. Prologue

6. Scene 1
People: Narrator B, Mrs. Eckford, Mr. Eckford, Narrator C, Elizabeth Eckford, Narrator D
Places: Kitchen, ironing board, TV, table chairs,
Events:

7. Scene 1

8. Scene 2
People: Narrator B, Crowd, Narrator C, Elizabeth, Narrator D, TV Reporter, Newspaper Reporter, Grace Lorch
Places: Schoolyard (pathway through crowd), Central High School, bench, risers, signs of protest, soldier escort, segregated school riser pathways.
Events: Crowd, walking through the audience, use screen to involve audience, TV reporter in audience,

9. Scene 2

10. Scene 3
People: TV Announcer, Governor Orval Faubus, Daisy Bates, Ernest Green, Elizabeth, Narrator B, Radio Announcer, Man, Melba Pattillo, Narrator C, Narrator D, Crowd, Photographer, School Official 1, School Official 2, School Official 3
Places: in kitchen, ironing board, TV-head man, big TV, at school, one side home-one side school,
Events: exit stage (home) then enter stage (school), TV/Radio headman in kitchen, photographer walks with students, get beat up, crowd is breaking stuff

11. Scene 3

12. Scene 4
People: TV Announcer, President Dwight D. Eisenhowser, Bates, Narrator B, Narrator C., Ernest, Minnijean Brown
Places: at house, ironing board, Jeep to school.
Events: soldiers escort nine to school in Jeep

13. Scene 4

14. Scene 5
People: Narrator D, Melba, White Student, Narrator B, Grandma, Melba, Narrator C, Narrator D
Places: in school, in hallway, in school 3-4 desks, chalk board,
Events: exit school stage enter home stage, running to and from school, add lines of “I don’t want to sit next to these Negroes.”

15. Scene 5

16. Epilogue People: Host for the Evening
Places: commencement, diplomas, cap and gown,
Events: MLK in audience, graduation, music (pomp and circumstance), Newspaper Program. Sing an original “Freedom Song.”

17. Epilogue