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8th grade performing arts thematic unit plans
12 Angry Men - Twelve Angry Men Complete Drama Unit Teaching Package
Everything you need to start a 3-week drama unit tomorrow!12 Angry Men is a short but powerful play that will hook your students' attention and keep them engaged throughout the unit. Students will build background knowledge about the legal system, study character development and theme, and make real-world connections to text.This fun, fresh product comes with an in-depth teacher's guide and suggested timeline for each day's activities making your lesson plans a breeze!What is included in this re
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7th - 10th
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Twilight Zone Teleplay Complete Unit Pack
This is a fantastically engaging and complete unit for your middle schoolers for Rod Serling's teleplay The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. This is material to help you teach the script from The Twilight Zone television series. The text of the teleplay is not included, as it is not in the public domain.You will get the following materials:Pre-reading Group Questions/Discussion PromptsPre-Reading Vocabulary and Extension Activities with KeyCharting Plot: Two Types of Charts with KeyLiterary Ele
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6th - 8th
Middle School Music Lessons | Complete General Music Curriculum for Entire Year
The Music Lessons and Worksheets Bundle 1 is a great collection of music lessons, worksheets and assignments that are suitable for the Middle School and General Music classroom. There are enough resources to teach for an entire year. Each resource is ready to teach, requires little to no-prep, you just choose a lesson or activity and go!For helpful information about this Bundle of Resources for Middle School Music, read this blog post hereThe Music Lessons and Worksheets Bundle 1 includes:THREE
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6th - 8th
Film in Music Lessons and Worksheets for Middle School and General Music
With these Film in Music Lessons and Worksheets for Middle School and General Music, you can help your students learn about the Elements of Music while listening to some of their favorite movie soundtracks. Each of the no prep lessons include a variety of activities for film in music history, reading comprehension and the Elements of Music listening activities.Click here to stay up to date with latest product releasesUPDATED RESOURCE DECEMBER 2023Included in the UPDATED Film in Music Lessons and
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6th - 9th
Aca-Scuse Me? Teaching Theme vs. Main Idea With Music and Lyrics
This assignment is PITCH PERFECT for teaching theme to students grades 4 through 8!***UPDATED 9/8/18 TO INCLUDE:***PRE/POST TEST ANSWER KEYSCONCEPT HANDOUT FOR STUDENTSANSWER SHEETS FOR EACH OF THE 5 SONGSIf you are like me back during my first year of teaching 5th, I struggled to teach main idea and theme. This assignment makes the task more fun. Resource is designed to help your students analyze 5 popular songs for themes. Included in this 21 page bundle:-5 hugely popular song lyric pages for
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4th - 8th
Christmas Comedy Drama Bundle - four Christmas plays
Christmas Comedy Drama Bundle is a collection of four original humorous plays that are suitable for reader's theater, classroom skits, or as a performance for a large audience. In The Christmas Rush, many last-minute shoppers hit their frustration point as they wait in a checkout line at a store behind an easygoing, unhurried shopper, who holds them up with his unintentional delays. In The Truth of the Matter, several characters pass along a story about a man who slipped and fell while out colle
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5th - 8th
A Midsummer Night's Dream Unit Plan With Lesson Plans & Activities, 12 Resources
Use this A Midsummer Night's Dream unit plan to draw students into Shakespeare's famous play. This 4-week unit plan includes lesson plans, bell ringers, activities, questions, characters, quotes, final projects, an essay and more. Students spend the first two weeks on an in-depth study of A Midsummer Night's Dream filled with engaging activities. Week 3 is spent on creative final projects and the final week is spent on the complete writing process for a literary analysis essay. All the prep work
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8th - 12th
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The True Beginning: Before the Method Book
Curriculum and lesson plans for the first weeks of your beginning string orchestra class. Learn how to set up your beginners for success as they establish good playing habits through step-by-step lesson plans, fun games, and motivating music.
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4th - 8th
Teaching Figurative Language with Taylor Swift Songs - Grades 3-6
If there’s one thing I love about Taylor Swift (other than her dance moves!) it is her use of figurative language. If you have ever listened to her songs you know she uses a lot of similes and metaphors in her writing. She is a major pop star today, and I guarantee your students can (and will!) sing along to any one of her songs! With this product you will be able to teach and have your students practice identifying and writing seven types of figurative language using Taylor Swift songs.
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3rd - 8th
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Handbell Unit - Learn to Play Hand bells / Tone chimes
A best seller. A unit of study for teaching upper elementary and middle school students how to play hand bells (aka hand chimes or tone chimes). This is the process I have used for years to teach 5th - 8th graders to play. It is a step-by-step process with 7 lessons, songs to use and how to teach the lessons. It has a .pdf file of the teaching process along with 11 projectable .pdfs to use with the class. This unit is for 2 octave hand bells (G4 to G6).It takes about a month (or 7 class periods
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5th - 9th
Theater Sub Plan! Drama Costume Design Lesson Fairy Tale Characters Fantasy
Bundle Fairy tales are very popular at present. Why not capitalize on your theater students' interest in them with this costume design lesson? Students can really let their imaginations soar and explore different settings (modern, the fifties, western, apocalyptic, furturistic, etc.) for their own costume designs while learning sound instruction created by a very knowledgeable and experienced veteran teacher. No gimmicks here. Even great for a substitute to teach! This two-day low prep lesso
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6th - 9th
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Poetry Analysis Guide Grades 3-8 - Digital & Printable Versions
This resource guide is perfect for teaching poetry analysis to your students (printable through Adobe PDF and digital version in Google Slides)! It includes 80+ pages in the printable version and 40 Google Slides (plus a how-to video to customize the Google version to your digital classroom). Scaffold and guide students through analyzing poetry, hitting on various skills along the way. Incorporate music lyrics and songs into your lessons to get your students motivated and excited about analyzi
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3rd - 8th
Rock Music Appreciation for Middle School | Year-Long General Music Curriculum
The Rock Music Appreciation for Middle School Year Long Curriculum is a great collection of resources that are suitable for the Middle School and General Music classroom. There are enough resources to teach for an entire year. Each resource is ready to teach, you just choose a lesson or activity and go.Click here to stay up to date with latest product releasesThe complete resources included in the Rock Music Appreciation for Middle School | Year-Long General Music Curriculum include:African and
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6th - 8th
Unit Bundle: Music History (Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic)
Welcome!My goal is to provide educators with thoughtful materials that they can either integrate into their current curricula or adopt entirely. The Unit Bundle: Music History contains four different units: Early Music (Medieval and Renaissance Eras), Baroque Era, Classical Era, and Romantic Era. With more than 300 pages worth of content, these units comprise over a year's worth of study for General Music classes. All files, with the exception of the PowerPoints, are in PDF format. Below are
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6th - 9th
Drama Class Theater Curriculum Middle School Vol. 1 Acting Improvisation Plays
30% Discount This drama curriculum bundle is perfect for the new theater teacher or those looking for unique and innovative resources. This bundle with 13 products (280 pages) has everything you need to teach a drama class for a semester, quarter or month (depending upon how many times you see your students.) I created these lessons for my own classes and used them for many years. I've included a scope and sequence to this bundle for FREE!Included in each product:List of ContentsLetter to Tea
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6th - 9th
Music in the Movies Mini Unit for Music + Language Arts || Google Slides + PDF
This is a ready-to-go, no prep, entirely done for you mini unit that is sure to engage your students, even if music is not their thing! I have created this unit to integrate music and language arts so that it is cross-curricular and purposeful, and can result in multiple marks for you as the teacher.Students will:* Learn about the history of music in the movies* Explore some Oscar winners* Learn specific terminology* Develop an understanding and appreciation for mood, tone, and feeling conveyed
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4th - 8th
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Pop and Rock Music Lessons and Worksheets for Middle School and General Music
The Pop and Rock Music Lessons and Worksheets for Middle School and General Music have been created with the Middle School and General Music student in mind. These pop and rock music appreciation lessons have a focus on the Elements of Music Listening Analysis, Paragraph Writing and include Reading Comprehension Strategies.Click here to stay up to date with latest product releases Included in the Pop and Rock Music Lessons and Worksheets for Middle School and General Music: TWO versions of the
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6th - 8th
African and Jazz Music Lessons and Worksheets for Middle School & General Music
These African and Jazz Music Lessons and Worksheets for Middle School & General Music tell the story of how Rock Music began. The resource has been created with the Middle School and General Music student in mind. It has a focus on the Elements of Music Listening Analysis, Paragraph Writing and the use of the Reading Comprehension Strategies to help improve the writing and literacy skills of your students.Click here to stay up to date with latest product releases Included in the African and
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6th - 8th
Radio Drama Unit Theatre Class Grades 7 to 9 Audio Storytelling Foley Artists
Part of a Bundle One of my most popular products! Get in on the excitement for your classroom, too! Got reluctant students in your classroom? Did you know that podcasts are the newest home for radio theater? Try radio theater--your students will find a place for themselves to participate in this unit! It is my radio theater unit ONLY. No script is provided. This TEN DAY unit, 43 pages in length, however you can use as little or as much as you like. It is suitable for middle and high school d
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7th - 9th
Broadway Musical Theater Unit Study Guide Wicked Grades 7 to 9 Plot Themes Songs
Part of a Bundle Elfaba and Glenda the Good Witch anyone? This one to five day lesson and study guide concerns the Tony award-winning Broadway musical Wicked! Need something different? Pick up this one. This unit contains enough material for four days. Students learn about the musical's origin, creative team, songs, trivia, plot and end with an enrichment activity or assignment which can be completed individually or with partners. This lesson can stand alone or be combined with one of my Famou
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Halloween Drama Class Units, Scripts and Lessons Bundle!
Script Writing Unit Plan
This is a detailed unit plan for a Language Arts 7-9 class or a Drama class. This unit focuses on script writing, scaffolding skills from Radio Plays to Reader's Theatre to adapting children's stories into original scripts. This is a great way to expose students to a variety of texts.This product includes: - Detailed lesson plans are included for 12 lessons- Teacher notes- Warm up game options- Comprehension reading with questions and answer key- Rubric, checklists, and peer assessments
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7th - 9th
Lin-Manuel Miranda | Digital & Printable Music Composer Listening Unit
If you loved Hamilton, Encanto, Moana, Mary Poppins, or In the Heights, you're going to love this Lin-Manuel Miranda Listening Unit! Since LMM is responsible for composing music for both film scores & the Broadway stage, his music will be familiar and engaging to a wide variety of students. This composer unit makes is great for in person learning as well as during Distance Learning! Also, please note that these diverse stories are key for students being able to feel included in your class
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2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Hispanic Heritage Month | Songs, Composers & Bulletin Boards (20% off)
Instruments of the Orchestra Music Lessons and Worksheets for General Music
These Instruments of the Orchestra Music Lessons and Worksheets have been created with the Middle School and General Music student in mind. This unit of work on the Instruments of the Orchestra has a focus on the Elements of Music Listening Analysis, Paragraph Writing and the use of Reading Comprehension Strategies.Click here to stay up to date with latest product releases Included in the Instruments of the Orchestra Music Lessons and Worksheets for General Music:TWO versions of the Instruments
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6th - 8th
Winter Bucket Drumming
This is built from one of my favorite teaching units – bucket drumming karate, and my desire to bring it to a winter concert setting! The students love showing off their skills, and so do I! My favorite thing is to use popular winter and Christmas songs that I already own and have the students play along! Each song features instructions as well as lyrics and suggestions for how to play along from start to finish (and passing actions if appropriate), followed by a practice rhythm slide for stu
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K - 8th
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