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Creating Mood

Creating Mood Lesson

Creating mood effectively is one of the most important lessons young actors can learn. In this lesson, students can practice using their imagination and concentration skills to create mood for a variety of different scenarios. This lesson gives students a chance to hone their ability to imagine their given circumstances, while using their voice, body, and mind to communicate what they are imagining.

Sixth Grade Drama Journal: Creating Mood

To maximize student achievement, download this drama journal for students to use as reflection or formative assessment.  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.

Three Scenes from a Book

Three Scenes from a Book Lesson

Creating a drama is one of the best ways to identify the most essential events in a story! In this lesson for students in grades 3-12, students can practice collaboration, imagination, and identifying story elements as they plan a drama of the three most important scenes from a selected book. This lesson is a fantastic way to integrate Language Arts with Drama, by enhancing students’ understanding of the text through character exploration and analysis of key plot elements.

Adding Details and Emotional Color to Writing Lesson

Adding Details and Emotional Color to Writing Lesson

Adding Details and Emotional Color to Writing Rubric

Beginning writers often leave out details that add color, emotion, and sensory elements to stories, poems, and nonfiction text. Likewise, beginning actors often create characters with little detail of gesture, facial expression, and movement. This integrated lesson is geared toward writers and actors of all ages who are excited about painting pictures with their words and physical choices. You will see improvement starting with the first introduction of this lesson. Use this lesson over and over again; it is always different because the students are the creators.

Food Poem

Food Poem

Is the narrator a picky eater, or are they being served green mold on a silver platter? This poem tells the hilarious tale of the trials and tribulations of mealtime. Students in grades 1-7 can practice playwriting skills, dialogue, transformation, and/or using the five senses. Language Arts can be integrated by introducing inferred scenes: who are these characters, and what might have happened between them in the past that we aren’t seeing in the poem? In addition, the poem can be used to discuss health and well-being through the topics of nutrition and food groups. We have also included some recommended step-by-step delivery ideas to help you turn the poem into a full lesson. 

Food Poem Journal: Grades 1-2

Food Poem Journal: Grades 3-5

Food Poem 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.