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High school drama lessons for Microsoft Word
Monologue Memorization Stations for Theatre and Acting classes
From Drama Dreams and English Themes, this product includes a lesson plan and assignment to assist students with monologue memorization. The lesson can easily be adapted to assist students with memorization in other classes as well. This lesson helps students explore different learning techniques and styles (chunking, aural, kinesthetic, intrapersonal, visual) while working on memorization in order to ultimately reflect and choose which learning style is most effective.The product includes a les
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7th - 12th
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TECHNICAL THEATRE INTRO | 2 Week Bundle | BACKSTAGE
NEED A THEATRE TECH UNIT full of activities and projects that can be done even without access to a stage? Super-varied TWO WEEK BUNDLE will jumpstart your drama students' interest in technical theatre! Includes slide presentations with easy-to-follow notes, pictures, videos, designs, webquests, projects, activities, worksheets, and keys. Pacing guide to help you seamlessly put it all together!Available in both print and digital with EASEL! INCLUDED3 PowerPoint Presentations (55 slides total)Guid
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9th - 12th
12 Angry Men Unit Bundle | Engaging teaching materials for 9-12 grade students
These materials, based on Reginald Rose's iconic play, 12 Angry Men, helps students apply the play and its themes to the American justice system. This bundle contains the following resources: Handouts for taking notes on juror details, facts about the case, and judicial elements, such as circumstantial evidenceA slideshow introducing the play's premise, context, and themesA list of engaging assessments, including writing prompts and creative projects, such as juror reflections and art assignment
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Humor and Comedy Writing Unit Plan
This is a 5-10 day humor writing unit plan for secondary English, college writing, or creative writing students. It’s meant to teach the theory and structure that go into humor writing along with plenty of practice activities.Humor writing takes a specific set of writing skills, and it can translate to a well-paying job for those who are especially good at it. Even students not destined for standup stages or sitcom writers’ rooms will benefit from studying the elements that make writing funny. T
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Laughing in Language Arts Class (English Lessons that Incorporate Humor)
Herding Cats: Theatre Modules ALL DISCIPLINES + POSTERS
Calling all Theatre Directors! Do you struggle with keeping actors and crew members engaged in meaningful lessons while you are working with a handful of students? Fret no more! Herding Cats: Theatre Modules can herd your cats. Lessons for actors include figuring out the driving questions of Stanislavski, moving like a mammal, creating the character's backstory, etc. Technical theatre modules for stage management, scenery/props, costumes, lighting, sound, and marketing. These lessons take crew m
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Julius Caesar - Brutus' and Antony's Speeches
Students compare and contrast the funeral speeches from Julius Caesar looking specifically for persuasive techniques and stylistic devices. This assignment is made for AP students, but can be modified for other high school levels.
Other related Julius Caesar products:
• JULIUS CAESAR - Targeting Themes
• Julius Caesar - Shakespeare - Group Critical Response Questions
• PLOT TWIST! Julius Caesar
• Julius Caesar - Character Interview writing assignment
• JULIUS CAESAR - Agree or Disagree
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Performing Poetry: Creating an Oral Interpretation of a Poem
REVISED AND UPDATED August 3rd 2019!Performing Poetry is a one-to-two week long assignment that takes students through the process of finding and developing an interpretation of a poem for performance in the classroom. It contains the lesson, students handouts, a performance rubric, a student seld-evaluation, suggestions for poems to use, and several great vocal warm ups that I use extensively in my drama classes. One of the nice things about teaching students to create an oral interpretation of
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Making Paper Mache Masks and Writing a Play:Arts Project with Rubrics
In this integrated arts project, students will make paper mache masks, write the script for and perform a play.
This project has three tasks.
Students first create paper mache masks. They turn these masks into the creatures of their choice - animals, monsters, aliens etc.
In groups of four, students use the characters from the masks to complete a creative writing task: Writing a play.
Students work together to write the script for a five minute play that incorporates all four of the chara
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6th - 9th
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF AUDIENCE ETIQUETTE QUIZ - DRAMA CLASS
This quiz corresponds with the PowerPoint Presentation that covers the "Ten Commandments" of Audience Etiquette in a fun, simple way. These ten commandments are essential for any Drama class, and there is also a fill-in-the-blank notes activity covering the ten commandments available in my store.
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4th - 12th
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Man of La Mancha Viewing Guide
This is a question packet to accompany the film (or play) Man of La Mancha. Although intended for a Spanish class, all of the questions are in English and can be adapted and enhanced for a high-level literature class. The questions are intended to make sure that students are able to recognize characters, basic plot ideas, and basic themes that they see throughout the movie. At the end they are asked to compare and contrast a selection of two characters, which includes Don Quixote and Sancho, Don
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9th - 12th
Musical Unit Bundle - Distance Learning
An 8 week unit with fully developed lesson plans, worksheets and assessment task with rubric for year 9/10 drama. This unit provides students with an introduction to musicals, looking at:OklahomaFiddler on the RoofThe Lion KingSweeney ToddRentLegally BlondeLes MiserableHamiltonA Chorus LineCatsInto the WoodsMamma MiaMoulin RougeJersey BoysRock of AgesThe Greatest ShowmanThis unit is distance learning friendly but can certainly be taught in a classroom with more practical discussions. The lesson
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9th - 10th
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Commedia dell Arte: 24 Lesson Drama Unit
For this unit, which assesses the students' knowledge of a specific theatre form based on their ability to identify key features of that form, I have chosen to slowly build upon prior knowledge by scaffolding the lessons. Lesson one introduces the students to the concept of theatre form itself by allowing them to view five different types of theatre/drama and asks them to relate these types to TV shows, movies or characters that they recognise. We then focus on the specific form of Commedia d
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9th - 12th
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Stage Movement Unit Bundle
Need your students to learn basic stage movement principles like staying open, effectively placing themselves on stage in groups, and using pleasing stage pictures? This is the unit for you! It includes PowerPoint presentations, a unit plan, a note-taking chart, several handouts, rubrics, and several scenes for concentration on movement principles. Recently updated to include a reading assignment with questions and answer key!
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7th - 12th
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Drama Program: Radio Plays
Created for Year 9 Drama, this is a ten lesson program leading to students writing and performing their own Radio Drama. It is easily adaptable to other year groups and links in with WA curriculum Arts outcomes.Document includes: - 10 lesson program. - 3 full lesson plans (60 mins each), including rationale. - Definitions for teacher reference. - Student Handouts - Project brief, Task brief & How to write a radio play.
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7th - 10th
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How to Read Shakespeare: Understanding Shakespeare's Language
Reading Shakespeare can be intimidating and frustrating for students. Help your students feel more confident in their ability to read Shakespeare by helping them understand what some of the “quirks” of Shakespeare’s language are and why he writes this way. With more confidence and understanding, students can read Shakespeare's plays more independently. I use the eight lessons included in this product before I teach any play in any secondary grade to scaffold students’ skills and to give them gui
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: How to Read Shakespeare NO PREP Bundle
Stage Lighting Bundle for 6-12 Theatre/Drama Classes
Included in the Bundle:Stage Lighting Notes SlideshowLighting Plot Activity w/ Scenarios & Interactive SlideshowStage Lighting Quiz, both printable & Google Forms w/ Answer KeyBONUS FILE: Character and Emotion Script Analysis Activity for any script!**If you need customization for your particular theatre space / lighting set up, contact Pearson's Perfect Pedagogy**
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6th - 12th
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A View From the Bridge - adapted for ELL, ESL and SEND learners
This simplified and abridged version of Arthur Miller’s classic ‘A View from the Bridge’ is guaranteed to enable students understand the text. It is an excellent starting point for students who would otherwise struggle with the original text. This has been used in schools for many years.This is a complete unit of work and the students will understand:• The important theme of 'The American Dream' and • the concept of respect in the Italian community during the 1950s.This is a perfectly differen
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9th - 12th
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Willy Wonka vs Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Movie Comparison Activity Pack
Allow your students to compare two versions of this movie. A great activity for after reading the novel, or on its own. Also great for a drama or film studies class.
This product includes:
-A graphic organizer for students to fill out while watching the films.
-An essay assignment for students to complete after watching - focusing on the similarities and differences, as well as allowing room for students to share their opinions.
-A performance activity which will allow students to be creative
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5th - 12th
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Teaching Dialogue in Romeo and Juliet
This activity is used once students have completed Act 2 of the play. In this lesson, students learn the three types of dialogue used in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by creating a foldable that includes the definitions and their drawings of the types of dialogue. To practice identifying dialogue students use the chart for Act 1, identify examples of dialogue, the character speaking, and what is being said. Students are then quizzed using the same chart with lines from Act 2. Answer keys are
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8th - 10th
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Story Elements Project, Children's Book Movie Project, Group Project, Rubric
What if you had to make a movie based on a children's book, but only had between 90 and 120 seconds to tell the story?
In this project, students are challenged to complete the question above. I've done this project with my 7th grade Language Arts class and it was a huge hit!
They need to:
• Choose and read a children’s book
o Write a summary of the book and identify the elements of the
story (characters, setting, conflict, resolution, theme)
• Write a script based on book
o Film or a
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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So you Want to be an Actor Drama Unit with optional remote learning web quest
An 8 week Junior Secondary Drama unit that explores acting skills and audition scenes.Students learn about the expressive skills and practice using them effectively in performance, they learn about scripted duologue and monologue scenes and complete an assessment that has them create a portfolio of expressive photos and a short audition scene.With a set of pretty and relevant posters to feature on your classroom wall, this bundle includes lesson plans, resources, an assessment task and rubric al
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7th - 10th
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No Prep Sub lesson Romeo and Juliet Comics Activity-gifted, special needs, ENG 9
No prep lesson. There is are comics templates for the entire play Romeo and Juliet, with simple text summaries, by Shakespeare Snippets. Students do not have to have read the play. Use for special needs students, younger gifted and talented students, as a last-minute substitute teacher lesson, as a test review, as a scaffolding method for Common Core standard CCRA.R.10, ESL students, as a final project.
Romeo and Juliet Comics Activity by Shakespeare Snippets is licensed under a Creative Commons
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9th - 12th
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Pantomime Reading Assignment
Use this short reading assignment as your introduction to the study and practice of Pantomime and Mime! A concise 3 pages of reading material covers mime history, 20th and 21st century mime influences, basic mime terminology, and key concepts within the art of Pantomime. The reading includes 9 discussion questions that can be used as a written grade, topics for longer writing assignments, or discussion points in class.
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Pantomime Unit Bundle
The Phantom Tollbooth Susan Nanus Multiple-Choice Reading Test
**PLEASE NOTE: Due to copyright restrictions, this product does not contain the reading selection(s).This 154-question multiple-choice reading analysis/comprehension test/quiz on The Phantom Tollbooth a two-act play by Susan Nanus has questions from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). It also includes an essay open-ended question about the story and characters. This test is on both acts (entire play). It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the selection, plo
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: Grade 6 Prentice Hall Lit. Unit 5 Drama Reading Tests Bundle (2 total)
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