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Liars Club Lesson

Liars Club Lesson

How do actors bring truth to every performance they do, even if it’s outside their own experience? In this lesson, students in grades 6-8 will have the chance to practice telling each other true stories that happened in their lives, and then telling each other’s stories to the class as if they were their own.  This lesson challenges students to practice great listening, collaboration, concentration, and imitation skills, preparing them to play more realistic characters and circumstances.

Liars Club Journal Grade 6 

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

The Empty Pot Lesson

Objective:  students learn about problem solving and comparing drama to real life
This is the 3rd and final lesson in the plant series for kindergarten-age children (see The Carrot Seed and The Tiny Seed).  With plants again as the theme, this lesson uses real life situations to teach messages of respect, and honesty along with emotions and conflict (part of the kindergarten objectives).   We wrote the lesson using the book “The Empty Pot” by Demi because of the illustrations, but you can use any version of the Chinese folktale.  This lesson is part of our recommended sequence in the Kindergarten Curriculum.

The Leprechaun and the Box

The Leprechaun and the Box story 

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This story was written to integrate with St. Patrick’s Day and provide a three character story for dramatization.  Tell the students that all three partners must be in the play at all times and see what they invent.  This story works with the concepts and skills of Believability, Collaboration, Emotions, Imagination, Imitation, Playwriting, Story Elements: Conflict, Transformation: Human and Recall.