Last Friday’s Literary Salon featured my students reading selections from the monologues and dialogues of Laura Amy Schlitz’s Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! For a few weeks beforehand I’d read them one or two a day during our morning meeting. Each child selected one, practiced at home, and then read it on Friday. Not only that — I recorded their readings, turned them into audio files, and yesterday the kids put them on their individual blogs as podcasts. Of course, they are not as polished as those of the Park School fifth graders for whom the pieces were originally written, but my students had fun with them and performed them ably. Do have a look, a listen, and comment if you are so inclined. (They are very eager for comments!)
TAGGOT, the blacksmith’s daughter
JACOB BEN SALOMON, the moneylender’s son and PETRONELLA, the merchant’s daughter
PIERS, the glassblower’s apprentice
MARIOT and MAUD, the glassblower’s daughters
educating alice 