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Part of Costuming Unit

Versatility

by Holly Beardsley

How do you take existing pieces and create a costume? One of the keys to successful costuming is knowing how to adapt staples into a variety of different costumes for different productions. As highlighted in Lesson One, when it comes to costuming, sometimes what you come up with won’t be the perfect costume. It’s important to learn to work with what you have. This lesson allows students to continue working on their clothing vocabulary document.
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# Costumes # costuming
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Part of Designing with Light: No Tech Required Unit

Introduction and Exercise 1

by Kerry Hishon

The exercises within this unit are meant for students to explore the concept of lighting for theatre without the need for extensive tech or even a theatrical lighting grid. Each exercise is meant to build upon the previous one, as students grow in their confidence with thinking about lighting in different ways.
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# Stage Management & Technical Theatre # lighting
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Emergency Lesson Plan: From Storyboard to Scene

by Drama Teacher Academy

Students will use the storyboard form to create pictures for each moment in a scene they plan to write. The key will be to really think about the key plot points and character motivations students want their scenes to both show and tell. Then, the focus will be to create visual representations of what the audience will see when they are watching the scene/play.
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# Emergency Lesson Plans # playwriting
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Part of A Midsummer Night's Dream Unit

Reading Act III | Finding Emotion and Action

by Drama Teacher Academy

In this lesson, students will read Act III in sections. Students will also go through an acting technique that can help them become confident performers of Shakespeare. Students will use analysis to explore finding emotion and action in the text.
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Part of Monologues - Part 1 Unit

An Introduction to Monologue Writing

by Matthew Banaszynski

Students will start the process of writing a monologue by storytelling. They will tell a story based only on what they observe in a picture.
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Part of Puppetry Unit

Hand Puppets

by Jenny Goodfellow

Students learn proper hand puppet technique and practice these techniques with a prewritten scene. Teachers can also choose to use traditional hand puppets, or students can make their own using socks/paper bags.
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# Genre # puppetry
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Part of Commedia dell'Arte Unit

Character Walks: Part Two

by Todd Espeland

In this lesson, students will see a demonstration of three character walks and practice those walks.
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# Acting # commedia
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Part of Puppetry Unit

Finger Puppets

by Jenny Goodfellow

If you have the resources, purchase finger puppets for this lesson. It can also be easily done with drawn faces on index fingers, or faces on popsicle sticks. Using well known fairy tales like “Little Red Riding Hood” or “The Three Little Pigs,” students will retell these stories from a different perspective, using their finger puppet.
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Images on Stage: War Posters

by Lindsay Price

Students will discuss and analyze War Posters. What are the images? What is being said with those images? Describe the colours and shapes. Students will discuss how a director can use images as a jumping off point for staging. Includes five posters, assessment rubric, and analysis sheet.
# Directing # directing # analysis
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Part of Unit One: Ensemble Building and Class Norms Unit

Intro to Feedback

by Lindsay Johnson

In this fourth lesson, students continue to practice classroom norms and are introduced to the concept of feedback. In the performance task, students will give peers strong feedback by using language from the Weekly Ensemble Rubric.
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# The Basics # middle school friendly
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Part of Unlocking Shakespeare's Text Unit

Punctuation

by Anna Porter

Students will learn the clues and meaning behind the punctuation that Shakespeare used. Students will also dissect, analyze, and color code examples. They will also use physical movement tied to specific punctuation to help them explore how it can communicate meaning in the text. Students will then apply this and analyze their performance script by examining their punctuation.
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Part of Playwriting Kickstart: Multi platform Unit

The Idea Process

by Lindsay Price

In Lesson 2, students learn and apply two topic areas to generate ideas
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Understanding Plot Structure

by Karen Loftus

In this lesson, students will first work in groups to create a pantomime called “Trapped.” The requirements of the pantomime mimic the elements of plot structure but shhhh, they don’t know that yet. Let them first enjoy the pantomime and then spring it on them that they just learned something.
# Technique # pantomime
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British Panto Project

by Lea Marshall

Students will evaluate the unique elements included in British Holiday Pantomimes, write their own short plays in this specific and fun style, and then perform. This is a light lesson for the holiday season or the end of the semester after any major culminating project. It allows students to work on a form of theatre they may not be familiar with, it gives you a chance to observe student demonstration of ensemble skills, and it’s fun!
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# Acting # pantomime
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Part of Monologues - Part 1 Unit

This is a draft, it is only a draft (Monologue Writing)

by Matthew Banaszynski

Using their rough drafts from the starter prompts, students will work in pairs to edit their drafts to make cleaner stories. Students will also map out their drafts on a story mountain diagram to make sure that they follow the proper format.
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Part of Monologues - Part 1 Unit

And Now We Perform

by Matthew Banaszynski

Students will perform their monologues in front of the class and reflect on the process.
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Part of Monologues - Part 1 Unit

Go Tell it on a Mountain: How Does a Story Work?

by Matthew Banaszynski

Students will understand the parts of a story and how it relates to a monologue through the framework of a story mountain.
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Part of Monologues - Part 1 Unit

And Then I... (Monologue Writing)

by Matthew Banaszynski

Students will start writing their own monologues using a preselected phrase as a starting point.
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Part of Monologues - Part 1 Unit

More Minds are Better than One (Monologue Writing)

by Matthew Banaszynski

Students will work in groups to turn their previous drafts into final drafts of their monologues.
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Part of Indigenous Symbolism in the Drama Classroom Unit

Indigenous Symbolism: Art to Drama Presentation

by Allison Green

Students will share their findings from the previous lessons, and present their interpretation of art in small groups. Options for assessment are included.
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# Character Development # indigenous # bipoc
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