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This blog post by a dialect coach is a list of the six most important things an actor should keep in mind when learning a dialect.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- Dialect Blog
- Author:
- Ben Trawick-Smith
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
This website is a resource for Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography, and the Globe Theatre.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- Absolute Shakespeare
- Author:
- Absolute Shakespeare
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson, students will demonstrate basic understand of acting for musicals by selecting lyrics to memorize and dividing it into moments.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- Brigham Young University
- Author:
- Brigham Young University's Theatre Education Database
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
Students will demonstrate an understanding of “The Fourth Wall†principles by performing a content-less scene where they will visualize, and/or break, the Fourth Wall.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- Brigham Young University
- Author:
- Brigham Young University
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson plan, students retell a story using costumes and props to reinforce sequencing.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- Utah Education Network
- Author:
- Utah Lesson Plans
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
This lesson plan highlights two approaches to teaching students about bullying through drama. In this lesson, drama serves as a means to highlight and explore bullying issues, giving pupils the opportunity to try out anti-bullying strategies for themselves.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- Drama Resource
- Author:
- David Farmer
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson plan, students will use pantomime, research skills, and information sharing to perform as someone or something from a country around the world. The teacher "travels" from country to country guessing who/what each student represents. The plan includes a time-travel variation as well.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ChildDrama.com
- Author:
- Matt Buchanan
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this humorous poem, a theatregoer has a bad experience at the theatre due to audience members displaying poor etiquette.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- Wondering Minstrels
- Author:
- A. P. Herbert
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
This article explains common audience etiquette that is appropriate for both indoor and outdoor performances.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- The Emily Post Institute, Inc.
- Author:
- Emily Post
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this article, the authors Anthony D. Hill, associate professor of drama at The Ohio State University, and Douglas Q. Barnett, director, producer, and founder of Black Arts/West in Seattle, discuss why they created the Historical Dictionary of African American Theater, the first comprehensive compendium of two centuries of blacks on stage.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- BlackPast.org
- Author:
- Anthony D. Hill ad Douglas Q. Barnett
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
This series of interactions and assignments covers reading, documentation, writing, evaluations, and performance. It introduces students to Aristotle's Plot Points and helps them find those points in books they are reading. At first this is a small part of a weekly lesson plan, then whole lesson time is devoted to writing, and, finally, students will rehearse and perform their BookTalk.
- Subject:
- Theater
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- STEPHANIE HUTCHINSON
- Date Added:
- 10/30/2019
This article outlines the Do's and Don'ts of Broadway theatre etiquette when attending a live performance.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- New York TV Show Tickets
- Author:
- New York Show Tickets
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson, students will demonstrate their understanding on how costumes and props can affect/form character by drawing a costume design for their scene character and writing a list of props their character might use.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- Brigham Young University
- Author:
- Brigham Young University's Theatre Education Database
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this activity, students are given an index card. Each student then writes the name of a famous person or character on that card. The cards are shuffled then redistributed amongst the group. The students must become the character on the card they are given and interact with the other characters in a given scenario. While they are interacting in character, each student is also trying to figure out which student was given the character they wrote on the index card.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- ChildDrama.com
- Author:
- Matt Buchanan
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson plan, students are led, using narrative pantomime, to act out a story about 3 dimensional space. Following the activity, students discuss their role in this lesson, as well as their community.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ChildDrama.com
- Author:
- Matt Buchanan
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this warmup activity, one student is the conductor, and the other students are the choir. The choir copies the sounds and moves the conductor makes. The conductor can control how loud or quiet the choir is and combine different sounds to create music.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- Arizona State University
- Author:
- Johanna Smith
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
This activity explores a dilemma faced by a character, providing an opportunity to analyze a decisive moment in greater detail.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- Drama Resource
- Author:
- David Farmer
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this unit, students will engage in an interactive activity that will enhance their understanding of story structure and story elements. Students will work in groups to create semi-impromptu skits. Paper bags containing five unique props are distributed to each group; these props provide the impetus for the development of creative skits. Students then use online tools to outline the story elements in their skits. The lesson also promotes listening skills as students view other groups' performances and determine the conflict and resolution of each.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Author:
- Nancy J. Kolodziej
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson, students brainstorm possible scenarios in which fire was first discovered. They then work in groups to create a performance acting out a possible scenario in which fire was first discovered.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ChildDrama.com
- Author:
- Matt Buchanan
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this activity, the teacher shows the class a children's picture book, they read the story as a class, then act it out.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- ChildDrama.com
- Author:
- Matt Buchanan
- Date Added:
- 03/23/2018
This website lists 45 actors and play titles along with a picture of their costume for the play. Some are sketches, and some are portraits. This is a great resource to show students what actors in England at the turn of the century were wearing for costumes. These pictures are from a book entitled, "Players of the Day" published in London by George Newnes, circa 1902.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- Author:
- C. Otis Sweezey
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this project, students explore the use of masks in various world cultures, learning about the origins, purpose, and use of masks in rituals, performances, fashion, occupations, etc. They consider how masks function as objects to enhance beauty and appearance, provide protection or concealment, display power, or indicate change and transformation.
Students use what they learn about masks to inform a reflection on the ways that they “wear masks” in their own lives, and the different “faces” they put on for themselves and others. They create a mask that artistically represents one of these faces and present it as part of a collaborative exhibition.
- Subject:
- Arts Education
- Art History
- Theater
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson
- Author:
- Buzz Proffit
- Date Added:
- 12/05/2019
Listening to folktales from around the world can enrich children's understanding of many cultures. Decide on a story with your children, and work with them to turn it into a play. Students will adapt a folktale into written dialogue.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- PBS
- Author:
- PBS Parents and Teachers
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
This is a booklet providing eight lessons and information about creating dramas with puppetry. It includes a glossary of terms, puppet making instructions, sample scripts, and a student certificate of completion. Students will learn meaning through movement, verbal expression, and creativity. They will identify theatre and storytelling forms from different cultures.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- San Diego Guild of Puppetry
- Author:
- San Diego Guild of Puppetry
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this activity, a student volunteers to select from a pile of cards that each have a simple sentence written on them. The student's task is to communicate a full sentence to the class using only body language and gestures. If they speak, it must be in gibberish.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- ChildDrama.com
- Author:
- Matt Buchanan
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson/project, students create and perform a Greek tragedy play based on a familiar story from history or from fiction.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ChildDrama.com
- Author:
- Matt Buchanan
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
This project guides students in creating their own fairy-tale or story as a group. The lesson includes discussions on what makes a good story, character development, improv situations, and script writing.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ChildDrama.com
- Author:
- Matt Buchanan
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
This activity serves as an introduction to the structured use of the imagination and to the idea of a character. Students will examine their hands, then make "animal puppets" using their hands. Children then can volunteer to show their hand creation to the class.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ChildDrama.com
- Author:
- Matt Buchanan
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
This is an online version of the book "The History of Costume" by Braun & Schneider published from 1861-1880. This online version includes all 125 original plates and is an excellent resource of historical dress from antiquity to the end of the 19th century.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Social Studies
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- Author:
- C. Otis Sweezey
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this activity, a student playing a character is questioned by the group about his or her background, behavior, and motivation.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- Drama Resource
- Author:
- David Farmer
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
This resource provides students with an outline for writing a screenplay. It explains that a screen play is visual and the character's actions move the story from scene to scene. Examples of a completed scene in the screenplay format is provided.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- Scriptologist.com
- Author:
- Elaine Radford
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
This resource provides ideas for staging the play "Hansel & Gretal" and general stage directions. These directions can be used for any type of stage or for the classroom. There is also information for costumes, scenery, set arrangements, and props.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- Express Publishing
- Author:
- Express Publishing / Literature Readers for Primary Levels
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
This website explains the process of seeing and reviewing a play. The site includes three examples of reviews for the same show written by different critics.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- Theatrefolk
- Author:
- Lindsay Price
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
Still images are used to explore abstract concepts such as relationships and emotions, as well as realistic situations.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- Drama Resource
- Author:
- David Farmer
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
This is a small collection of improvisation games and warmup games that can be used to sharpen up your cast if you’re a director, or to add energy and originality to your students’ acting if you are an acting teacher. All can be done with no materials in any reasonably sized space.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- ChildDrama.com
- Author:
- Matt Buchanan
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson, students will demonstrate their understanding of scoring a poem by beginning to score their own and working on their poem in pairs. The lesson includes an improvisation warm up game and class discussion.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- Brigham Young University
- Author:
- Megan Powell
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson plan, the teacher will introduce students to the dialects they may study in depth as actors. Lesson includes Powerpoint Presentation, video examples, worksheet, and rubric for final assignment.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- Utah Education Network
- Author:
- Elizabeth Christensen
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson plan, students will demonstrate their ability to use projection and diction in speaking by creating a tongue twister and teaching it to the class. The lesson includes vocal warm up games and class discussions on the importance of the voice in portraying a character.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- Brigham Young University
- Author:
- Megan Powell
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this activity, three students improvise a job interview. One student is the boss asking questions, and the other two students are potential employees. While the boss is asking questions to one interviewee, the other interviewee is trying to distract the competition.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- ChildDrama.com
- Author:
- Matt Buchanan
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this warmup activity, students work together to trick "Kitty" out of a seat in the circle.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- Arizona State University
- Author:
- Johanna Smith
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson, students will demonstrate appropriate call and response using their voice (loud and soft), body, and imagination to create theatre. Students will create movement related to theatre.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- University of California Irvine
- Author:
- University of California, Irvine
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson, students will identify significant information from text (setting, sense memory), and demonstrate active listening skills by creating appropriate movement and sounds for a story.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- University of California Irvine
- Author:
- University of California, Irvine
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson, students will identify significant information from text (setting and senses) and demonstrate active listening skills by creating appropriate movement and sounds for a story.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- University of California Irvine
- Author:
- University of California, Irvine
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson, students will demonstrate how actors use their tools, listening and responding skills, to portray real and imaginary characters in a story. Students will also identyfy setting (e.g. a firehouse, resturant, grandma's kitchen, dungeon, etc.) and story points for a story.
Extension activities are included that encourage students to participate in further research, make connections and apply understanding and skills previously earned to personal experiences.
Questions are included to engage students in deeper discussion around the subject.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- University of California Irvine
- Author:
- University of California, Irvine
- Date Added:
- 03/23/2018
In this lesson, students will select and use a prop to define a character or setting. Students will participate as a good audience member. A performance rubric is included. This lesson should be used in conjuction with lesson 9.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Curriculum
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- Teaching Artist Project
- Author:
- Teaching Artist Project
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson, students will design, produce, rehearse, and perform a story through dramatization (options are radio drama, puppet play, or live theatre). Students will assess their performance by discussing all aspects of their production such as how the actor's voice, gestures words, and body movements work together to create a character. A rubric is available. The performance should be video taped for student review and to enhance the discussion.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- Center for Learning in the Arts, Sciences and Sustainability UNC, Irvine
- Author:
- Center for Learning in the Arts, Sciences and Sustainability UNC, Irvine
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson, students will work collaboratively to create frozen pictures (tableau) and perform onstage. Students will rehearse the actors's responsibility for performing on stage (sequence). The lesson includes a performance assessment rubric. This lesson should be done in conjucntion with lesson 8.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- Teaching Artist Project
- Author:
- Teaching Artist Project
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
This unit is a five step guide for setting up a framework for ongoing written literature response with primary students, especially kindergarten. Designed to help teachers "set the stage" for ongoing literature response, the procedure begins with drawing/labeling and moves through increasingly complex writing requirements that address higher-ordering thinking skills and foster student creativity.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Author:
- Renee Goularte
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this video, a cast member of the Lost Colony outdoor drama in North Carolina gives historical background information for the show. The video also includes images from backstage and during the performance.
This lesson plan is a step-by-step process for making and manipulating puppets made out of paper bags.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ChildDrama.com
- Author:
- Matt Buchanan
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson, students will demonstrate their ability to incorporate effective hand gestures or movement in their poems. The lesson includes warm up games and class discussion.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- Brigham Young University
- Author:
- Megan Powell
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this activity, students create a story from movement while the teacher plays different types of music. The students create improvisations based on their body positions after the music stops and the teacher calls, "Freeze!"
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ChildDrama.com
- Author:
- Matt Buchanan
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
Students will delve into Hans Thoma’s Wondrous Birds to discover an aerial perspective and learn to see more deeply. Using dance, English language arts, science, theatre arts, visual arts, and poetry, they will explore landforms and bodies of water from a bird’s-eye view.
- Subject:
- Arts Education
- Dance
- Theater
- Visual Arts
- English Language Arts
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Author:
- A+ Fellows of NC
- NC Arts Council A+ Schools Program
- NC Museum of Art
- Date Added:
- 11/19/2021
Students will improve visualization skills through role play, texture identification, and creating an original work of art depicting their own families. They will also discuss connections between the painting and their own lives.
- Subject:
- Arts Education
- Theater
- Visual Arts
- Career Technical Education
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- North Carolina Museum of Art
- Author:
- NC Museum of Art
- Date Added:
- 07/14/2017
In this video, a master marketing teacher gives advise to actors about how to be successful in the entertainment industry by strengthening and expanding their network of relationships. This is part 1 of a series of 3 videos. (NOTE: Part 2 is disabled and does not play.)
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- Master Talent Teachers
- Author:
- Suzanne Lyons
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this video, a master marketing teacher completes her three-part video series on advice for actors to be successful in the entertainment industry through networking. This is part 3 of a series of 3 videos. (NOTE: Part 2 is disabled and does not play.)
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- Master Talent Teachers
- Author:
- Suzanne Lyons
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
In this lesson, students explore either historical periods or current events by choosing a news story from that time and acting out the events from that story.
- Subject:
- Theater
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ChildDrama.com
- Author:
- Matt Buchanan
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
