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Continuing Story
Students interpret scenes from a novel they are reading. In this literature lesson, students select scenes from The Stone Cutter to perform for their classmates. Students should attempt to recreate the emotions that think the...
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"The Three Billy Goats Gruff"
Studnets spread out in space provided.  They are given two rules: no sounds, no touching.  Pupils begin with the leader says, "Go," students move; when the leader says "Stop," they freeze.  Students work individually and simultaneously,...
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Daily Actings
Pupils view clips of Anna Deavere Smith's work. They interview people on video or audiotape to learn their lines, dialect, and syntax to assist them in theater.  They create a play which emulates the people in which they interviewed.
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Reader's Theater
Students study sequencing while reading an Australian folk tale. In this sequencing lesson plan students read a folk tale using Reader's Theater and discuss what happened first, second and last. Students also create animal ears and...
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Sequencing Stories
Students explore dramatization. In this literacy fluency and drama lesson, students listen to the story Mop Top by Don Freeman and add related sounds at the appropriate times. Students role play, pantomime, and add sounds to  create...
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Entertaining Vancouver's Youth During World War II.
Students investigate relevant period documents and artifacts and have the
opportunity to replicate a 1943-44 entertainment experience by viewing a program
of World War II era motion pictures on site at Vancouver's historic...
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Strange Encounters
Third graders examine a variety of Robert Harris' paintings.  Using the characters in the art, they develop a conversation between them in a musical verse.  In groups, they identify safety procedures to be used by those traveling in the...
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Japanese Noh Masks
Learners examine Japanese theatre and create their own face masks which display certain emotions, props, costumes and perform in improvisational theatrical games.
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iPod Reporters
Students develop a topic for a class newspaper article and set up an interview with someone involved in the issue.  They record the interview using an iPod with a voice recorder then use direct quotes for their article.  As a whole...
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Inside Catlin's Head
Pupils will develop a variety of skills that include spatial, body kinesthetic, and communication skills. They create journal entries about the artist George Caitlin and a script for a theatrical skit.
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How Perspective Shapes Understanding of History
The Boston Massacre may be an iconic event in American history, but perhaps the British soldiers had another point of view. Using primary sources, including reports from Boston newspapers and secondary sources from the British...
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Introduction to the Script Department
Students study drama and plays.  They study the job of a playwright and discuss plot and conflict in a play script.  Together, as a class, they access an online resource site to find information about playwrights and then decide upon and...
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An Apple Tree in Fall
First graders discover the two color families and how artists use the colors to express mood or feeling.  Students paint pictures using water colors of an apple tree and include background, middle ground, and foreground in their scene.
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Soho Square
View the film Soho Square. Improvise sequences based around everyday locations and consider how theater and film differ in the way they engage an audience with the group of characters. Develop a group of performances using the extract...
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Cora Unashamed
Students watch the Masterpiece movie " Cora Unashamed."  They study American social history, race relations, and investigate Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance. They have a discussion before and after viewing the film.
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Lights, Camera, Action!
Students participate in an alternative reading assessment using a video camera and script. In this alternative reading lesson, students work as a group to perform their reading story. students memorize their lines and film their play.
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Recreating a Masterpiece
Students analyze and critique various artists and their work. They write research papers on artists and create reproductions of their works, reflecting their earlier critiques of the works.
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Pipe-Cleaner Stick Figures
Second graders create puppets out of pipe cleaners and, in groups, put on a puppet show based on a section of a story they have read from their readers.
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I Am Special and You Are Special Too
Students discover how everyone is special in his or her own way. In this character traits lesson plan, students demonstrate how they are special by drawing a picture or writing. Students listen orally to the book We Are All Alike...We...
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LA CENERENTOLA (Cinderella)
Pupils formulate how to make puppets and realize that puppetry, like opera, is another kind of theater. They gain deeper knowledge of the characters in Rossini's La Referentially. Students use this concept to make decisions about...
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Shakespeare Character Analysis Using "Twelfth Night"
Eighth graders complete a six-week unit on character analysis for the play "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare. They conduct research and write a report, participate in a book talk, and create a character analysis assignment to...
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Paws in Jobland: Lesson Plan 2 - Role Play
Students discuss and role play various careers in order to become familiar with the curriculum of the book "Paws in Jobland". In this introductory lesson, students pretend they do a certain job, and answer written questions about what...
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Theme 5: Doers and Dreamers Propaganda
Seventh graders create and perform one act scenes that use the strategies of advertising. in this propaganda study lesson, 7th graders watch a commercial and are assigned a propaganda strategy. Students plan a scene that illustrates the...
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Posture and Pantomime: Total Body Movement
Students analyze posture and pantomime in an analysis of total body movement. In this body movement instructional activity, students read a chart of movements and the mood or attitude they convey. Students complete several space and...
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