Greek Independence Day 1821 script

25^th March 1821

Greek Independence Day.

“Dance of Zalogo” 

script.

This is a script I used last week 

for one of my classes assembly. 

It's a short script because

 the time I had was limited.

You can use it for young classes 

especially when you have more girls than boys.

 So I gave 2 lines to each pupil to learn.

 The boys were the narrators

 and the girls were the "Souliotisses".

This story show to pupils 

how important is freedom.

These Greek women from Souli 

decided to jump down the Zalogo mountains 

from a steep cliff 

to avoid capture and enslavement, 

while signing 

and

 dancing the Greek folk song 

"Dance of Zalogo".

 After they sang all together the song,

  the girls danced the 

"Dance of Zalogo".

At the end each girl step on a chair 

and jump down it one after the other, 

after making their cross. 

It was really engaging for pupils 

to learn about this part of 

the Greek History 

and they did a lot of questions about it.

When working with the script 

I asked them 

how they feel about these women? 

 I was really impressed 

when I took the answer 

" We will probably do the same as we love to be free people!"
Download the script here