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The Chase Lesson

the chase lesson

The Chase Lesson: Using Space

Objective: Students will learn how space affects drama.

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This lesson for fourth grade students focuses on the actor's skills to transform space using locomotor and non locomotor movements. You can use this lesson to integrate with dance or visual art elements. The lesson makes use of the Freeze activity - download it before you begin. The fourth grade objective addressed in this lesson is the analysis of actors' skills (C.I.T.I.C). This lesson is part of our recommended sequence in the Fourth Grade Curriculum.

Fourth Grade Drama Journal: The Chase

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 Fourth Grade Curriculum. 

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.