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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students read a novel as a class and discuss the ending. In groups, they rewrite the ending to the novel into a drama skit making the plot different as well. They develop and answer five questions about the changes they made and offer a new theme for the story. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students create costumes using recycled materials determined beforehand by the teacher in this High School Drama/Art lesson on costume designing. The example lesson is based around the title of "Water, Water, Water" but can be adapted to fit any title. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students participate in a drama character building activity. They view and discuss a video segment, discuss the differences between the two girls in the video, and compare the two characters by saying the same phrases while pretending to be the different characters. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students role play, create, and discuss issues related to social activism in this Drama or Language Arts lesson for the fifth grade classroom. Emphasis is placed on the creative process and the idea that students, at whatever level, can make a difference. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students attend "clown school" in this fifth grade lesson that can be used in the Language Arts or Drama classroom. Emphasis is placed on character development and specific traits that can be acted out. This lesson ends with a clown graduation ceremony. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students examine the characteristics of two reading genres: drama and short stories. Working in pairs or small groups, the students decode and discuss unfamiliar words in reading passages. Next, they read the passages and identify which genre they belong to. Finally, the class discusses the lesson, and reviews how to determine if a story is fiction or non-fiction. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students study the Anglo-Saxon layer of language and elements of drama in a comedy. They review words and identify the letter-sound correspondences, syllable patterns, and morpheme patterns. They identify characteristics of comedy and analyze how the play Rumplestiltskin may be different if it were a tragedy. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students examine morpheme patterns to better understand word origins. They look at how compound words are formed and how the meaning of the words changes. Finally, they read about the Origins of Drama in a comprehension selection before discussing the reading. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students are introduced to the six elements of drama. While watching a film, they note the examples of the elements along with identifying themes. To end the lesson, they develop scenery for a play at their school with the help of others. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 11th
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Students listen to recorded music, and watch a short video to observe how the musical sounds reflects the action in the video. Afterwards, they discuss images that come to mind when listening to certain types of music and the effect that music has upon drama. In groups, students write their own drama that matches given music. Full Review »
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