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Get Me Out of Here Poem

Get Me Out of Here Poem

What’s worse, a yearly check-up or being attacked by every animal in the zoo? For this narrator, it’s clearly the former! This poem paints a vivid picture of many different animal characters, from scurrying mice to menacing grizzly bears. Students in grades 2-7can focus on action/reaction, emotions, problem solving, repetition and/or transformation. We have also included some recommended step-by-step delivery ideas to help you turn the poem into a full lesson. 

Get Me Out of Here Journal: Grade 2 

Get Me Out of Here Journal: Grades 3-5

Get Me Out of Here Journal: Grades 6-7

To maximize student achievement, download this drama journal for students to use as reflection or formative assessment. For each poem, we have created a corresponding journal page for your students. A drama journal allows participants to reflect on their learning and artistic growth (metacognition). It also allows you, the teacher, to see how students are using the drama vocabulary, thinking about big ideas, and perceiving their own strengths and weaknesses.

The Story of Rabbit, Elephant, and Whale

The Story of Rabbit, Elephant, and Whale 

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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 into a full lesson for the 4th grade to teach students how actors use the drama tools (body, mind, voice) to create a character.

Pirate’s Treasure Lesson

Pirate's Treasure Lesson: Practicing Basic Skills 

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Objective: students demonstrate listening, concentration, movement, and imagination.

Students try their best to steal treasure from a pirate. Shoes, erasers, pencils, or other objects become the treasure that the pirate must protect. Concentration is the key to solving the best way to get to the treasure, snatch it, and sneak it back without getting caught. After, students discuss their successes and challenges in capturing the treasure. Besides concentration, listening and teamwork play an important role in this lesson (part of the third grade objectives). This lesson is part of our recommended sequence in the Third Grade Curriculum.

Third Grade Drama Journal: Pirate's Treasure

To maximize student achievement, download this drama journal for students to use as reflection or formative assessment. For each lesson in the curriculum, we have created a corresponding journal page for your students. A drama journal allows participants to reflect on their learning and artistic growth (metacognition). It also allows you, the teacher, to see how students are using the drama vocabulary, thinking about big ideas, and perceiving their own strengths and weaknesses. If you use the journal for assessment and would like more assessment tools, visit our Third Grade Curriculum. 

Baby Tar Rabbit

Baby Tar Rabbit story 

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This story is for small groups of 3-4 and is adapted from Joel Chandler Harris’s Uncle Remus. Participants can enact both animal characters and body objects.  If you tell the story in a slight dialect, the students might be interested in using that dialect in their drama, but it is not essential.  It is good before you begin to determine if the students know about a briar patch.

The Mindless Woman

The Mindless Woman story

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This story is such a delight for students because they enjoy the silly nature of the woman’s actions.  The story was originally created for second graders studying China in social studies.  The students can be put into teams of four and given the direction that everyone needs to be in the story at all times.  Since there is only one character, students need to use previous knowledge and skills learned in Body Objects and The Hare and the Tortoise stories to determine how everyone was going to contribute to the final work. It works with the skills of Imagination, Imitation, Narrator/Storytelling, Repetition, Space Control/ Design, and Story Elements: Plot & Setting.

Sydney and Jojo

Sydney and Jojo story

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This story was written for third graders in an inner city Chicago Public school.  In the inner city, it is important for brothers and sisters to look after one another because the parents are sometimes absent from their lives--the story works with that narrative.  This drama story targets the concepts and skills of Believability, Cultural/ Multicultural, Imagination, Imitation, Movement, Repetition, Story Elements: Character, and Recall.