I am a training teacher and on my current teaching placement I will be teaching 4, 45minute lessons in the area of drama.
I have a class of 26 10year olds and need some help thinking of a drama unit to teach. The lessons need to develop form idea to idea.
Any ideas of drama lessons you have taught before or any ideas in general would be greatly appreciated.
I don’t have any objectives as of yet. I have no direction in particular that i need to follow in creating my drama unit. I want a good idea or series of ideas I can put together and i will generate objectives, learning intentions and success criteria from this.
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Tape an old Whose Line Is It? and show it to your students.
Then put on a Whose Line show. It will help with their improvisation skills.
Have them come up with their own skits, props and everything.
Have them act out a line from a movie, and memorize the lines exactatly. i.e. Pirate fight scene from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Improv is probably one of your best bets…Its something that the kids will have LOTS of fun doing and its something that can be time consuming as well. For The first period you could teach them the rules and the basics. The second, discussing the different types of improvs (mixed/compared or the different categories rhyme, mime, singing etc) and maybe if there’s time do a practice improv to let them give it a try and so they don’t get bored from the rules and such. And the next two putting on skits. The first time have two teams and the rest be the audience (for the voting) and then the next time the audience plays and the players become the audience so everyone gets a chance. Hope this helps and good luck!