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Responding to and Analyzing Theater Lesson Plans
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Fifth graders examine basic theatre vocabulary and use it to discuss a play. In this theater instructional activity, 5th graders identify the elements of a play. Students perform their play and use theatre vocabulary to explain their experience.
Explore African-American culture in this lesson, which focuses on researching literary figures. After researching Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, middle schoolers read his play Mulatto: A Play of the Deep South. They investigate the three main characters from the play and write a reflection paper about the play, which is a good opportunity to work on literary research and evidence. You could use this lesson in an American History class as well.
Young scholars view a video about the stereotypes and discrimination in Africa. They discuss the differences between primary and secondary sources. They write an essay that analyzes the impact those sources had on other's work.
Students examine the role of tone in a comedy play. They also discover how to paraphrase a passage and explain a character's point of view.
Ninth graders identify and examine the role of prepositions and complete a text comprehension activity. In small groups they generate a list of prepositions and read a class list. Students then read and discuss a nonfiction article about plays and the origins of plays.
Learners write skits. In this drama lesson, groups of students complete a worksheet about making connections in texts. Together, they write a skit using their completed worksheets. Learners practice skits for a performance.
Students investigate the concepts related to creating and performing a dramatized play. They take part in a series of different activities that include writing, acting, and analyzing the meaning of the play. Students read and create their own dramas.
Students examine the elements of Noh plays and read and analyze the text of two plays. They identify the elements of Noh plays, complete a worksheet, watch a video about Noh Theater, and complete an organizational chart.
Eleventh graders read a script for play. They analyze the script to determine the requirements for lighting. From the investigation, 11th graders discuss and design the lighting for a play. As a class, they produce lighting instructions for the light plot, cue sheet and cued script.
Students explore storytelling by participating in a creative writing activity. In this play writing lesson plan, students read a popular short story in class and analyze the settings, characters and plot. Students transcribe the story into a stage play using dialogue and stage directions.
