Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Theatre- The Critic's Review

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students construct a critical review of a performance. In this theatrical instructional activity, students learn why critical reviews are important and create their own critical review. Students discuss their review.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understanding Drama (English 7 Reading)

For Students 5th - 8th
Learn how to explain a playwright's use of dialogue and stage directions.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Tes: Advice for Directing Your School Play Using a Midsummer Night's Dream

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespear Company teacher resource focuses on how to direct A Midsummer Night's Dream as a school play. It offers advice and provides a short summary of each scene followed by questions...
Handout
Other

Cummings Study Guides: How Shakespeare Prepared Manuscripts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn many of the elements which Shakespeare used, or took into consideration, as he wrote the original manuscripts of his plays. How did he shape the English language with new words, how did he evoke settings when plays used few or no...
Website
National Arts Centre (Canada)

Arts Alive: English Theatre

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtsAlive provides a detailed look into world of professional theatre. Thematically organized content walks through all the processes involved in "transforming a play from the page to the stage," including playwriting, directing, acting,...
PPT
Other

The Stoa Consortium: The City Eleusinion

For Students 9th - 10th
The City Eleusinion was one of the most important sanctuaries in the religious life of the ancient Athenians. As the urban "branch" of the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis, the City Eleusinion played a key role in the initial...