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Civil War Drama Lesson

Civil War Drama Lesson

Drama is a great way to engage students with historical events by encouraging them to think deeply about point of view. In this lesson, designed for grades 4-8, students will practice concentration, collaboration, and transformation while using Body Objects to communicate different settings. This lesson encourages students to think about point of view and sectionalism, deepening their understanding of the events and forces that led to the Civil War.

NOTE: Civil War Drama is part of our unique library of integrated lessons. These specialized lessons simultaneously teach concepts and skills related to drama and the other subject(s) targeted in the lesson. In addition, these lessons are designed to meet National Standards for Drama and for the integrated subject(s), so you can reach learning goals across multiple disciplines.

An Absolutely Gorgeous Day Poem

 

An Absolutely Gorgeous Day Poem 

Students will love this globe-trotting poem, packed with action and humor! The narrator wants to run away but can’t decide where to go: Tokyo or the Midwest? Timbuktu or the Florida Keys? In this exciting adventure for grades 2-6, students could practice transformation, narrator skills, body objects, and settings. Additionally, students could practice geography skills by locating places on the map. We have also included some recommended step-by-step delivery ideas to help you turn the poem into a full lesson.

An Absolutely Gorgeous Day Journal: Grades 2-3

An Absolutely Gorgeous Day Journal: Grades 4-6

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.

Bon Voyage Poem

Bon Voyage Poem

Have you ever gotten so fed up with your family that you just wanted to mail them away? In this hilarious poem, perfect for grades 2-6, the narrator mails family members to far off places—fromNebraska to Alaska, from the zoo to Peru! Students can practice body objects and transformation skills. Additionally, there are opportunities for students to learn social studies skills by locating places on the map and work on dance skills by exploring different movement qualities. We have also included some recommended step-by-step delivery ideas to help you turn the poem into a full lesson

Bon Voyage Journal: Grades 2-3

Bon Voyage Journal: Grades 4-6

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.

An Absolutely Gorgeous Day Poem

An Absolutely Gorgeous Day Poem

Students will love this globe-trotting poem, packed with action and humor! The narrator wants to run away but can’t decide where to go: Tokyo or the Midwest? Timbuktu or the Florida Keys? In this exciting adventure for grades 2-6, students could practice transformation, narrator skills, body objects, and settings. Additionally, students could practice geography skills by locating places on the map. We have also included some recommended step-by-step delivery ideas to help you turn the poem into a full lesson.

An Absolutely Gorgeous Day Journal: Grades 2-3

An Absolutely Gorgeous Day Journal: Grades 4-6

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.

 

Rodeo Stars Lesson

Rodeo Stars Lesson: The Three P's 

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Objective: students demonstrate the planning process needed to create a drama.

Students create a rodeo (e.g. bull roping, pig catching, clowning, elegant horse riders) with no practicing time as a team; the rodeo is a struggle. As they reflect on the process, they discover the need to plan and practice as a team in order to be successful (part of the third grade objectives). Following a team practice, the rodeo is now successful. This lesson can be used to integrate topics related to the Western US or regions of the United States - read more details in the lesson. This lesson is part of our recommended sequence in the Third Grade Curriculum.

Third Grade Drama Journal: Rodeo Stars

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. 

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.