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Fun Drama Class Project: Creating a Commercial
This is a brief (1 to 3 day ) project that is engaging for students! This step-by-step handout guides students from brainstorming and planning to rehearsing and performing a brief TV commercial. Students will select any object found in the classroom or backpack. Who is the audience? Why do they need this product? Students learn to work together and the result will be a brief and often hilarious commercial!
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Speech Drama Unit for Middle & High School Drama
Speech Drama Unit
This 56 page unit plan + 19 page PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach your students about speech. This unit has students exploring speech through a variety of activities, assignments and presentations.
The skills and objectives that will be met through this unit include:
- Vocal technique
- Expression & vocal qualities
- Articulation
- Parts of the body associated with vocal technique
This is a unit I have experience teaching successfully at the middle or seni
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5th - 12th
Also included in: Drama Unit Bundle 2
Elements of Drama Notes | Interactive Notebook | ELAR | Editable
Great for introducing a unit on drama. This note sheet provides students with some of the major elements that students will encounter in drama texts. Students can fill in this note sheet and then glue it into their reading notebook. Perfect for standardized test prep, such as the STAAR.This document is completely editable to meet the needs of your students.This product is a Word Document, but also includes a link to a Google Doc.Check out my other reading-related activities!Vocabulary Menu⭐️Plea
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3rd - 7th
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Three Scene Play Playwriting Unit for Drama, Theatre, or Acting Classes
DISTANCE-LEARNING FRIENDLY. REVISED AND UPDATED JULY 2019. This complete, three-week unit plan for teaching a simple, three-scene playwriting structure in any class has been extremely helpful to the many teachers who have purchased it over the past four years, since it debuted in July of 2015. I have been honing the lessons contained in this unit for a decade and a half in my own classes and it is a simple, fun and creative way to teach story structure, character development, and dialogue writin
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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"One Night in the Woods" Drama Class One Act Play Based on Fairy Tales
One Night in the Woods mashes five classic fairy tales with five popular television shows to create an entertaining one act play that works as a classroom or extracurricular project. It’s Cinderella as an episode of The Bachelor, Rapunzel as The Amazing Race, and Red Riding Hood as a breaking news story!The play can also be broken into five independent scenes, four of which work completely independently of the main script. Cast is variable from 4-16. Gender is 2 male and 2 female for four perfor
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6th - 12th
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller - Intro to Salem, Puritanism, Witchcraft-UPDATED
**Updated to improve viewing content and to add CLOZE notes for student engagement**
This power point presentation provides background information on Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, focusing on Salem, Puritanism, and Witchcraft. PowerPoint does not cover parallels with the Red Scare and Communism.
A good starting point for reading the play. I often print the power point and give it as homework for them to read and annotate. When students come in, we discuss what they learned.
Are you
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
A Brief History Of Theatre - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the history of theater / drama from the ancient Greek Dionysian rituals till the establishment of London’s theater houses.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a fill-in-the-gaps exercise, and a fun crossword . The text can also be u
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Also included in: A Brief History of... - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Shakespeare Package: 16 Activities and Assessments for ANY PLAY
Macbeth / Hamlet / Romeo & Juliet / Othello / King Lear / Julius Caesar / 12th Night / The Tempest / Taming of the Shrew / Merchant of Venice / many more!!!A bundled pack of activities and assessments that work for ANY Shakespearean play and are READY TO PRINT! They're also 100% editable in case you'd like to make alterations.40 Pages of Pre/During/Post Reading Activities and AssessmentsA HUGE variety of reading, analysis, writing, media, creative, and performance activities/assessments to p
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
Shrek the Musical Viewing Guide
I made this viewing guide to go along with the filmed Broadway version of Shrek the Musical to show my Intro, to Theatre class. It addresses allusions, story questions, character questions, and analysis of the performance aspects (lighting, costumes, makeup, special effects, etc.)
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7th - 12th
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Drama // Acting Performance Rubric // Performance Assessment
This is a fantastic all-encompassing rubric to assess acting in a drama class. The rubric is on a 5 point scale, and assesses five categories: movement, character, blocking, voice, and facial expression.
The document includes two pages: one for a pre-assessment, and one for the final assessment. It is in document form so you can edit and change as you see fit.
I use this with my drama students at the beginning of the course and the end in order to show student growth. Once you become familiar
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7th - 12th
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Character Development Worksheet for Any Scene or Monologue
This worksheet requires students to analyze four key qualities that will help them establish and create a character for any monologue, scene, or performance activity.
Students are asked to analyze the CROW aspects of a character. CROW stands for the: character (personality and physical attributes), relationships (past interactions with their scene partner or the listener), objectives (what their character wants), and where (setting and circumstances).
I have used this chart with drama studen
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7th - 12th
Someday by Drew Hayden Taylor Unit: Lesson, responses, and project on the play
Someday by author Drew Hayden Taylor is a play about a fictional Ojibwe family who is reunited after the events of Canada's Sixties Scoop, where Indigenous children were often forcibly removed from their homes and put in non-Indigenous foster or adoptive homes. This unit is suitable for BC's English First Peoples course, Ontario's NBE courses, or any other Canadian English course or Indigenous studies course. Unit includes a PowerPoint lecture with background information for the play (what the
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10th - 12th
Theatre Curriculum Bundle
Discover the wonders of theatre with our comprehensive Theatre Curriculum Bundle! Topics Included:Building a Positive and Collaborative Theatre EnsembleStory-Telling BasicsVocal ProjectionResonance & Creating Character VoicesStory AnalysisConstructive Critique TechniquesScript Reading & AnalysisMonologue Writing & PerformanceIntroduction to Theatre History with Greek TheatreColor Theory as an Introduction to Theatrical DesignTheatre Make-Up BasicsCostume DesignScenic DesignSound Desi
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Small Group Reader's Theater for Halloween
In this book, there are 6 reader's theaters. They were written for Halloween. The scripts always look MUCH better on paper than it does in the advert on this webpage. Each reader's theater is sold singly but you can get all six in this packet. Scripts are: Franken Cranky, The Gobble Gobble Ghost, The Halloween Heroes Present Halloween Safety Tips, Shhhh, The Corn Has Ears, The Witch's New Broom, and Which Witch is Which. The booklet gives you 6 for $8. When you buy them individually they cost $2
The Taming of the Shrew and Ten Things I Hate About You Comparison Table
A detailed table which breaks down the eleven major connections, similarities and differences in the ways the characters, narrative events and issues in the play are extended, challenged and subverted in the modern film appropriation. This can be used as a support resource for an essay, presentation or to aid revision. It can also be adapted by deleting some parts of the text and asking students to add their own ideas and examples.
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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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75 Fantastic "What If" Fractured Fairy Tale, Nursery Rhyme, and Story Prompts
Looking for prompts that force students to reexamine stories and think "outside the box"? This collection of prompts takes characters that students know and says "What if" something different had happened! Great for use as a creative writing "Bell Ringer" set, as improvisation prompts, or as scene starters for longer scenes or one-act plays. The set of 76 prompts (you get a bonus!) includes a few suggestions on how to use the prompts in the writing classroom or theatre program. Enjoy!
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Incredible Improvisation Bundle
Pygmalion Teaching Materials (Quizzes, Discussion, Activities, etc.)
This 57 page Word document contains a collection of teaching materials that I use to teach George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion. There are materials to use before reading, during reading, and after reading. Activities range from conducting internet research, to role-playing and even performing a scene from the play. Most of the activities included were ones I created during my graduate coursework, and are research-based literacy strategies (i.e. "Intra-act", "essential questions", "Hot Seat", "P
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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MASK MAKING | Intro to Mask History
Educator-created MASK MAKING | Intro to Mask History, with visual examples this Presentation explores the history of the Egyptian, Greek, African, Native American, Chinese, Italian and Mardi Gras Mask traditions, discussing their purpose and aesthetics. INCLUDES Link to Behind the mask documentary (9 mins) SEE Mask Making for Performers Assignments | MY MUA Resource for 3 assignment briefs, one covering this specifc.Most importantly view YOUTUBE video in order to see content in this resource a
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9th - 11th
Also included in: Makeup STAGE THEATRE Drama | Costume Mask Making | FULL YEAR Mega Bundle
Macbeth Act V Open Book Scavenger Hunt and KEY
Macbeth Act V Open Book Scavenger Hunt. This sequential 30 question scavenger hunt with a key can be used as a reading check or guide. It may be done indivually or as a group activity. It could also be assigned as homework and used as platform to assure the Act has be read and now discussion can occur. This is an add water and stir lesson plan, easy for the teacher and with a high effectiveness index for students. It keeps them on task and improves reading comprehension. A page answer KEY is pro
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Broadway Musicals Online Scavenger Hunt
Use this resource as a way to introduce or close a unit on Broadway musicals or as a way to introduce students to the long, rich history of the Broadway stage. The 40-item scavenger hunt gives "clues" that students will use to search online for answers. Over 40 Broadway shows and 35 Broadway personalities are referenced, and students will be researching 9 decades of Broadway facts and trivia! It is editable, and an answer key and some ideas for using the assignment are included. Have fun!
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Theatre Online Scavenger Hunt Bundle
Drama - Theatre History - Ancient Greek Theatre
This is a short, but very important Powerpoint that covers Greek theatre history.We teach them only the basics (so we don't overwhelm them with history) that gives them an understanding of where history originated.It goes through different key points about it, which we cover in grade 9 and 10:✤The Greeks and their love of theatre✤The playwrights✤The Greek theatres themselves (the architecture)✤The types of plays✤The Chorus and actorsThere's a matching handout on my site that has a fill-in-the-bl
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8th - 12th
I've Got Something to Say! Monologue Unit for Drama
A complete Monologue unit for high school drama designed to be fun and exciting! Includes 16 lesson overviews, 2 complete lesson plans for lessons 1 and 4. Appendices include instructions for all drama games and exercises, plus scripts, sample monologues and assessment criteria. Specifically designed for the New Zealand curriculum but easily adaptable to any curriculum.By the end of this unit, students will be able to: analyse their chosen character and apply the fundamental character ques
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8th - 11th
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Technical Theater/Stage Craft Shop Safety
Created for a high school CTE Technical Theater class, this PowerPoint and fill-in-the-blank style student notes cover the very basics of theater shop safety with 14 rules. Learning objectives Arizona state Technical theater standards listed in the presentation. Easily customized for your state requirements or desired outcomes. Also includes a closure activity to check understanding.
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7th - 12th
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