Planning and Practicing: The Tightrope Lesson Are your students planning and practicing pros yet? This lesson is a great way to encourage students in grades 6-8 to be more thorough in their planning and practicing process and hone their collaboration and cooperation skills. This builds upon other planning and practicing lessons by including a special … Read more
The Story of Rabbit, Elephant, and Whale In this story, the rabbit outsmarts the elephant and the whale, both of which use their physical size against the rabbit. Students like to act out the different parts in this story as they learn that sometimes being wise can counter physical size. This story is also designed … Read more
The Well story This story is designed to be played by a group of 4, but it can be told with any number of students. In this story, students learn to identify and imitate emotions such as pride, silliness, anger, fear, frustration, joy, and shock.
The Vision Quest story Brave Shadow heads on a vision quest to find is courage. Little does he know it is in his heart. This story is perfect in the body objects lesson and introduces students to life as a young Native American on the North American continent.
Trip Across America story This story can be used in a year-long plan in many steps. It can be used multiple times with different regions of the US and helps reinforce drama skills. We provide a six-step guide in the PDF to assist you.
John “Appleseed” Chapman story This familiar story is customized to integrate teaching tall tales. This story can also be used with the Body Objects Lesson.
The Sacred Scarab Root story This original story was written specifically for use in drama focusing on the concepts of Balance, Imagination, Cultural/Multicultural, Narrator/Storytelling, Repetition, Story Elements: Character, Conflict, Plot, Setting, Theme/Idea, and Transformation: Human Characters. It can also be used in the Body Objects Lesson if you are just getting started with drama. A little background … Read more