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Teaching Playwriting in Schools Unit

Teaching Playwriting in Schools

1st - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
The world is a stage, and so is your classroom! Hone the skills of the next generation of Tony® award winners with a set of exercises, reference pages, writing prompts, and excerpts from famous plays.
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Writing: 7th Grade ELA Common Core
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Writing: 7th Grade ELA Common Core

7th
Transform drafting into crafting with a collection of materials designed to enrich your seventh grade writing unit. Each resource addresses one or more Common Core standards for persuasive writing, informational writing, and narrative writing, and connects to various novels and subjects across the middle school curriculum.
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Off to Adventure!: Challenge Activities (Theme 1) Unit

Off to Adventure!: Challenge Activities (Theme 1)

3rd
CCSS: Adaptable
Off to Adventure! is the theme of an English language arts unit comprised of a variety of challenge activities. Scholars enhance skills and reinforce concepts by taking part in a grand book discussion, giving an oral report, and writing...
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lesson Plan

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

4th - 7th
CCSS: Adaptable
Nonsense words, rhyming verse, and word puzzles: it must be time for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland! Introduce young learners to the true wonders of Carroll's text with a series of activities that encourage creativity,...
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Ten Minutes or Less Activities & Project

Ten Minutes or Less

9th - 12th
To conclude a study of script writing, young dramatists are instructed to create their own one-act play. Designed to be performed in 10 minutes or less, the scripts are to include stage directions, scene and character descriptions, as...
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Play Writing Lesson Plan
1 In 1 Collection

Play Writing

6th - 8th
CCSS: Designed
Blossoming playwrights create multiple scripts about connecting with nature. The first collaborative script prompts learners to choose characters and a first line. They then choose a second line of dialogue and pass their notebooks...
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Creating an Original Opera Lesson Plan

Creating an Original Opera

9th - 12th
This may be a lot to ask of a high schooler, but then again, who knows? Pupils work in groups to explore, write, and then perform an original opera. They view versions of The Magic Flute and La Traviata, then compose a plot, characters,...
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Drama: A Warm-Up Routine Lesson Plan

Drama: A Warm-Up Routine

8th
Marketing, lighting, setting the stage, and a script. It sounds like we're going to be putting on a show! Your enthusiastic young actors research pop culture in all its facets, then set to work to write a polished script and perform an...
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The Neighborhoods of Make-Believe Lesson Plan

The Neighborhoods of Make-Believe

6th - 12th
Examine the features that make a good children's television show and create a pitch for a new show based on these criteria. Writers then evaluate a currently broadcast show based on criteria discussed in class. The richly detailed plan...
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Macbeth News Broadcast Lesson Plan

Macbeth News Broadcast

9th - 12th
Here is an authentic assessment task for Shakespeare's Macbeth. Young literature scholars prepare, perform, and record a news broadcast about the major events in the play. For example, groups may choose to report on the death of Lady...
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The American Dream: Gatsby on the Stage Lesson Plan

The American Dream: Gatsby on the Stage

8th - 11th
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past..." Use this Great Gatsby novel study lesson to reinforce literary analysis in your class. Working in groups, young readers write a script for a chosen scene...
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Alicia Keys, Songs in A Minor Lesson Plan

Alicia Keys, Songs in A Minor

9th - 12th
Need a musical lesson for your drama or performing arts class? VH1 has put together a really neat lesson, in which learners use biographical information about Alicia Keys to write and perform a one-act musical related to her life. This...
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Silent Movies: A Year 7 Scheme of Work Lesson Plan

Silent Movies: A Year 7 Scheme of Work

6th - 7th
Even an outline can give you enough information to execute an awsome project. The tasks for each of the seven weeks of this project are defined, as well as the objective and specific content facilitated through the project. Learners will...
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Two Sides of Every Story: Day 1-10 Unit

Two Sides of Every Story: Day 1-10

7th
CCSS: Designed
A ten-day lesson is described in a short outline. It may be short but the idea is wonderful. Learners engage in textual analysis as they analyze and research various accounts of historical events common to the Civil Rights or Vietnam...
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Giving to Get the Beat Lesson Plan

Giving to Get the Beat

5th - 8th
Explore script writing based on prose in a cross-curricular literacy instructional activity. After listening to the folktale The Drum, middle schoolers identify and describe specific story elements such as characters and events. They...
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Simple Machines Lesson Plan

Simple Machines

5th
Have your class conduct research to learn all they can about simple machines. They use the web, take notes from a video, write a script, then make a film describing various simple machines found in real life. These videos are then...
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Shakespeare 2000 Lesson Plan

Shakespeare 2000

12th
Comparing the more modern film Ten Things I Hate About You to The Taming of the Shrew leads to an understanding of how Shakespearean plots can be applied to modern-day situations and characters. As a culminating activity, groups select a...
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Scripting a Crime Drama Lesson Plan

Scripting a Crime Drama

9th - 11th
Develop novice script-writers. Small groups sift through a sample script, noting any script-writing conventions to share with the whole class. Using these conventions and plot structures, these groups compose a script for a 10 minute...
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Scene Writing: Literacy and Playwriting Lesson Plan
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Scene Writing: Literacy and Playwriting

7th - 8th
Drama is ever-present in our daily lives and eloquently depicted on stage. Middle schoolers practice writing scenes based on different prompts and frameworks, and then perform those creative scenes for their classmates. The activities...
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The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe: Literature and Theater Lesson Plan

The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe: Literature and Theater

4th - 5th
Students read and discuss the literary elements of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis. They explore the elements of dramatic performance and create a TV news program based on life in Narnia. They videotape their...
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Playwriting and Sculpture Lesson Plan

Playwriting and Sculpture

9th - 12th
Students study the fundamentals of playwriting and complete a variety of pre-writing activities before they use expressive language in writing their own one-act plays. They also build "bigger-than-life" sculptures of the main character...
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Hollywood Lesson Plan

Hollywood

3rd - 6th
Pupils listen to a play, or perhaps, take turns reading portions of it aloud. Afterward, they thoughtfully analyze and discuss the components of a well-written play. Next, a theme is assigned, and each person writes a play in conjunction...
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Newberry 90 Second Movie Lesson Plan

Newberry 90 Second Movie

5th
I love this project! We all read and summarize chapters with our students, but not like this. The class is broken into 4 groups, each group reads a different Newberry book and summarizes each chapter. They use their chapter summaries to...
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Through Time London Reinforcing Activity Lesson Plan

Through Time London Reinforcing Activity

4th - 8th
Students explore world history by analyzing a book with their classmates. In this playwriting lesson, students read the book Through Time London: From Roman Capital to Olympic City and define the stories, characters and settings in the...
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