In this warmup activity, students work together to trick "Kitty" out of a seat in the circle.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!"

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.

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.

This video takes a look at the traditional staging used in Noh performances.

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.)

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.)

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.

In this activity, students act out scenarios in which a character must experience anxiety at school. The scenes are performed, then rehearsed again. The second time, the students change the emotion from anxiety to worry. The scenes are performed again, and the students identify moments they noticed emotions shown through bodies, voices, and words.