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These are designed as enrichment activities for non-grading. But you can easily grade these, and of course adapt to your specific group. I will be creating by the week, as needed. This is "Week 1". (This course is a movement course that explores ensemble and devising)

For printing or putting into Google Classroom.

Here is a simple choice menu for students to explore Props.

Ensemble Experiences to be used while observing physical distancing-Feel free to tweak them for your needs, whether at a distance or in person. Enjoy

There are several videos on Youtube that can work with this worksheet. Enjoy.

Rules for Zoom!

This is link to my Google slide deck for using a "Breakout Rooms" extension for Chrome; a good way to have small groups integrated with your Google Classroom. So far, there are really only two viable extensions for breakout rooms. This tutorial is for Robert Hudek's extension (v 0.0.16.4) which is, by far, the best one. Google is said to release their official app but has been delayed. Meanwhile feel free to PM me.

In this unit, students created their superhero/alter ego character with a backstory and then created a wand with special powers. They wrote the back story and built the wand. This unit works well for online learning. Good for Grade 6-8 Focus: Thinking Creatively, Elements of Design, Prop building

In this unit, students created their superhero/alter ego character with a backstory and then created a wand with special powers. They wrote the back story and built the wand. This unit works well for online learning. Good for Grade 6-8 Focus: Thinking Creatively, Elements of Design, Prop building

this is a poster (i had it printed as an engineer print. so HUGE.) i created for my classroom wall. i use it for students to assess their learning as they climb the mountain of learning up to the mountain top level of creativity!!! it also helps students

This is a rough semester outline for a semester designed around using physicality to bring animal / object characters to life in fable adaptations. Many of the ideas and lessons are pulled from the DTA site, especially the mask course. There are rubrics,

This is a semester long plan for a 7th-8th grade Drama Class. It includes many materials from the DTA site, especially from the Improv course. It begins with ensemble and improv, moves to scene work, and ends with some Boal exercises and Forum Theater fro

This unit allows flexibility in choosing theatre styles throughout history to explore. This unit was created for grade 11 Drama within the Ontario Curriculum. Please feel free to adapt this work.

Here is an example of a Performance Rubric I use in my classroom to grade Performance Assessments (this one is grading a partner performance of an open scene, but I use the same basic format for all my Performance Assessments, just swapping out the rubric

I find that my middle school students really struggle with unstructured rehearsal time. These graded checklists help me make sure that work is getting done and keep me circulating and checking in with each group!

Easily track your expenses for your show or year! This spread sheet is set up so that each area (costumes, make-up, sets, props, tech) has their own sheet and a grand master so you can easily see your expense totals as well as projected revenue.

Here is the SIMPLEST of the three rubrics I created to use for my typical daily short writing assignments. This one is for the beginner class daily prompt. It is how I start class, and I call it the "Lights Up!" assignment. It is a simple and effective way to get them geared up for the day's lesson/topic. They get a half sheet of scrap paper and 10 minutes to respond to a prompt of some kind: a quote, question, paragraph, video, or picture. The 3 simple rubrics I am sharing here have taken the place of the old-school Check Plus, Check, and Check Minus type of grading. And as you can see, I can grade things fairly quickly using this.

Here's another example of a rehearsal checklist to use with middle schoolers. This one involves student directed partner scenes, with focus on character movement.

Here is the second of the three rubrics I created to use for my typical daily short writing assignments. This one is for a more in depth writing/response class daily prompt. They may have 10-15 minutes for this one to respond to a prompt of some kind: a quote, question, paragraph, video, or picture. The 3 simple rubrics I am sharing here have taken the place of the old-school Check Plus, Check, and Check Minus type of grading. And as you can see, I can grade things fairly quickly using this.

Here is the third of the three rubrics I created to use for my typical writing assignments. This one is for the more in-depth reflection response and the student have much more time to complete it that the 10 minutes or so of the other ones I shared. It still allows me to grade things fairly quickly using this!