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Perhaps Today Poem

Perhaps Today Poem

Pirates or pilots? Pancakes or plunder? This adventurous poem tells the story of a restless and imaginative child deciding how to spend a completely free day. This piece is a perfect way for students in grades 2-6 to practice imitation, setting, body objects, and playwriting skills. You may also choose to integrate Language Arts by discussing creative writing skills and the creation of setting. We have included some recommended step-by-step delivery instructions to help you turn this poem into a full lesson.

Perhaps Today Journal: Grades 2-6

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.

One Person Monologue Lesson

One Person Monologue Lesson

Give students the opportunity to write, act and direct, all in one lesson! Ideal for sixth through eighth graders with prior drama experience, this lesson guides students through creating, directing, and performing an original monologue in groups of three. Students can hone their collaboration skills, drama tools and practice giving constructive feedback to their peers.

Sixth Grade Journal: One Person Monologue 

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.

Plot Boosters

Plot Boosters

Use this list of plot boosters to develop original stories for your drama work! These ideas can support the plot by moving the story along, giving the reader/viewer new information, showing character changes, foreshadowing, providing irony, creating cause and effect, and supporting the message and/or theme of the story. 

Scarf Tale Lesson

Scarf Tale Lesson: Story Elements 

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Objective: students adapt and or revise story details. Students combine the primary tools (body, mind, voice) and a secondary tool (a prop) to create a drama.

Students have fun with a scarf, passing it and transforming it. They participate in a story about a crying baby and then, in teams, adapt that story into their own story using the scarf (part of the third grade objectives). This challenges students to use drama tools and simple props in a drama. Bring in scarves or different colored fabrics to use as the props. Before starting this lesson, review our techniques for viewing and sharing student work. This lesson is part of our recommended sequence in the Third Grade Curriculum.

Third Grade Drama Journal: Scarf Tale

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. 

Adaptation of Living Things Lesson

Adaptation of Living Things Lesson 

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Objective: students adapt and/or revise story details.

Animal characters make up the focus for "Greysum Opossum’s Way" (included). Students adapt the story by putting in their own ideas as they work in a team (part of the third grade objectives). This lesson integrates well with teaching adaptation or habitats in science. If students need a refresher on playing animal characters upright, review the Hare and Tortoise Lesson from our Introductory Lesson series. This lesson is part of our recommended sequence in the Third Grade Curriculum.

Third Grade Drama Journal: Adaptation of Living Things

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.