Emergency Lesson Plans

Students will read a list of basic playwriting rules, infer the meaning of the rules, read the meanings of each and respond with their personal opinions.

Use this ELP if you have to be away from class unexpectedly for 1-2 class periods. This ELP is not only a great exercise for students but will help identify and categorize what’s in your current classroom play library.

In this ELP, students will analyze the skills they learn and have learned in drama class. What impact do the identified skills have in drama class? What impact do the identified skills have in life? For students who finish early, there is an optional Reflection.

In this ELP, students reflect and respond to a variety of questions and statements about the Theatre. The aim of the lesson is to have students identify statements they connect to and express their point of view on those statements.

In this ELP students will take on the role of director. As the point person in a production for both the onstage and offstage departments, the director is the one who must problem-solve in a variety of situations. Students are asked to brainstorm solutions for a variety of problems and write out their answers. They will submit their work at the end of the class.

In this ELP, students will take on the role of a working playwright in the process of having a play produced. The relationship between playwright and production is sometimes precarious – directors have been known to ban playwrights from rehearsals, actors have been known to change lines.

You have finished studying a text in class. What happens next? In this Emergency Lesson Plan, students discuss and decide what happens next in a play. What happens after “the end?” Where do the characters go? What path will their lives take? Students will turn this discussion into a scene.

What happens next? In this Emergency Lesson Plan, students discuss and decide what happens next in a play. They will turn this discussion into a written scene. Use this ELP at the beginning of a unit.

In this ELP, students build comprehension of a play and it’s characters through an external exercise.

In this ELP; students study a picture, create a character profile for the person in the picture, and then write an inner monologue for that character.

Students will read a text. They will respond to post-reading questions. They will then write their own versions of the next scene. What happens after the last line of dialogue? How will it end for the characters? What happens next, positively and negatively?