Drama Kindergarten-Sixth Grade Standards, Vocabulary, Content and Language Objectives, & Lessons/Activities

Unit of Study 1 Elements of drama-Script Kindergarten Quarter 1

Standards Playmaking – (Planning) The student will make plays informally. Acting – (Playing) The student will act in informal presentations.

Key Concepts The student can identify story elements and retell a story about a favorite character.

Skills Identify story elements of characters, setting and events. Retell stories Listen, imagine, pretend, imitate, and cooperate while working well with others.

Drama Content Objectives I can listen attentively to an adult tell a story and identify the characters, setting and events. I can explore characters, setting and events in several stories. I can listen and respond to others.

Drama Common core language objectives Listen to a story and retell the story changing the characters, setting, or events in the story. Engage in retelling this changed story through pretending to be the characters and acting out the story.

Vocabulary Character: person animal, or object in a story Setting: the place the story happens. Events: what happens in a story. Pantomime: the telling of a story without words, by means of bodily movements, gestures, and facial expressions.

Lessons (Activities) Story Time Mime: Before you read a story, look through the book and assign students to play all of the roles. Not all students need roles for each story time, but if you want to increase the number of active children, assign some children to be inanimate things such as wind or a table in the story. As you read, have the children act out the story in mime. Choose more bashful children to be the inanimate objects, so they can work up to being more active mimes.

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Unit of Study 1 Elements of drama-Script 1st Grade Quarter 1

Key Concepts The student can identify story elements and retell a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end.

Skills Identify the 5 W’s in a story Tell a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end.

Drama content objectives I can identify the 5 W’s in a story. I can tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end. I can listen and respond to others.

Drama/common Core Language Objectives Listen to a story and identify the 5 W’s in the story. Engage in retelling this changed story through pretending to be the characters and acting out the story.

Vocabulary Character: person animal, or object in a story Setting: the place the story happens. Events: what happens in a story. 5 W’s: who, what, when, where, and why. Pantomime: the telling of a story without words, by means of bodily movements, gestures, and facial expressions.

Lessons (Activities) Before you read a story, look through the book and assign students to play all of the roles. Not all students need roles for each story time, but if you want to increase the number of active children, assign some children to be inanimate things such as wind or a table in the story. As you read, have the children act out the story in mime. Choose more bashful children to be the inanimate objects, so they can work up to being more active mimes. Have students identify the 5 W’s in the story.

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Unit of Study 1 Elements of Drama-script 2nd grade Quarter 1

Drama Content Objectives I can listen and respond to others. I can pretend to be a character and talk to others. I can act.

Drama/common core language objectives Listen to a story. Dialogue a scene with at least two characters and show how conflicts can be resolved. Teacher-guided playwriting. Create scenes, reader’s theater, narrative mimes, etc. where characters try to resolve conflicts.

Vocabulary Character: person animal, or object in a story Setting: the place the story happens. Events: what happens in a story. 5 W’s: who, what, when, where, and why. Pantomime: the telling of a story without words, by means of bodily movements, gestures, and facial expressions. conflict

Lessons (Activities) Process Drama Friends Unit

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Unit of study1 elements of drama-script 3rd grade Quarter 1

Key concepts The student will learn to plan and pantomime interrelated characters in a classroom dramatization.

Drama Content Objectives I can create different characters for a plot. I can pretend to be a character and talk to others (improvise). I can act. I can create dialogue and physical attributes for characters experiencing high tension.

Drama/common core language Objectives Listen to a story. Dialogue a scene with at least two characters and show how conflicts can be resolved. Teacher-guided playwriting. Create scenes, reader’s theater, narrative mimes, etc. where characters try to resolve conflicts. Read a familiar story. Create an alternative ending to the story.

Vocabulary Character: person animal, or object in a story Dialogue: when characters talk with each other. Setting: the place the story happens. Events: what happens in a story. Plot structure: sequence of events leading to a climax and resolution 5 W’s: who, what, when, where, and why. Pantomime: the telling of a story without words, by means of bodily movements, gestures, and facial expressions. conflict tension

Lessons (Activities) Telling Stories through Improvisation 7 lessons Process Drama Friends Unit

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Units of Study 1 elements of Drama-Script 4th grade Quarter 1

Standards Playmaking – (Planning) The student will plan and improvise plays based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history for informal and formal theater. Acting – (Playing) A student will cooperate, imagine and assume roles, explore personal preferences and meanings, and interact in classroom dramatizations. Understanding Art Forms – The student will compare, connect, and incorporate art forms by describing and analyzing methods of presentation and audience response for theater and dramatic media, including, film, television, electronic media, and other art forms.

Key Concepts The student will learn to create dialogue for various plots. Exploring how conflicts created tension in a story.

Skills Create dialogue for various plots. Map the plot structure of a story. Pantomime

Drama Content Objectives I can create different characters for a plot. I can pretend to be a character and talk to others (improvise). I can create dialogue. I can create tension in a drama through conflicts between characters.

Drama/common core Language objectives Listen to a story about the pioneers. Dialogue a scene with at least two characters and show how conflicts can be resolved. Teacher-guided playwriting. Create scenes, reader’s theater, narrative mimes, etc. where characters try to resolve conflicts. Read a familiar story. Create an alternative ending to the story.

Vocabulary Character: person animal, or object in a story Dialogue: when characters talk with each other. Setting: the place the story happens. Events: what happens in a story. Plot structure: sequence of events leading to a climax and resolution 5 W’s: who, what, when, where, and why. Pantomime: the telling of a story without words, by means of bodily movements, gestures, and facial expressions. Tension: the atmosphere created by unresolved inharmonious situations. Mood : the feel of a piece Conflict: tension between two or more characters or between action and ideas.

Lessons and activities Telling Stories through Improvisation 7 lessons Process Drama Friends Unit Have the students consider the following questions: Who are the characters? What do they want? What makes the situation urgent? How does it get resolve? Now improvise this original scene. Repeat and refine.

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Units of Study 1 Elements of drama-script 5th grade Quarter 1

Key Concepts The student will learn to create dialogue for various plots. Exploring the underlying reasons why characters act the way they do.

Skills Create dialogue for various plots. Analyze dramatic elements that create mood. Identify motives and objectives of characters in a story. Demonstrate how character motives influence actions and outcomes.

Drama content objectives I can create different characters for a plot. I can pretend to be a character and talk to others (improvise). I can create dialogue. I can identify motives and objectives of characters in a story. I can understand and demonstrate how character motives influence their actions and outcomes.

Drama/common core language objectives Teacher-guided playwriting. Create scenes, reader’s theater, narrative mimes, etc. where characters try to resolve conflicts. Discuss what the mood of the scene is Read about an event in United States history. Construct a dramatization that reveals how the character motivations influence action and outcome.

vocabulary Character: person animal, or object in a story Dialogue: when characters talk with each other. Setting: the place the story happens. Events: what happens in a story. Plot structure: sequence of events leading to a climax and resolution 5 W’s: who, what, when, where, and why. Pantomime: the telling of a story without words, by means of bodily movements, gestures, and facial expressions. Tension: the atmosphere created by unresolved inharmonious situations. Mood: the feel of a piece Conflict: tension between two or more characters or between action and ideas.

Lessons (activities) Telling Stories through Improvisation 7 lessons Process Drama Friends Unit UEN 5th grade lesson

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Units of study 1 elements of drama-script 6th grade Quarter 1

standards Playmaking – (Planning) The student will plan and improvise plays based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history for informal and formal theater. Acting – (Playing) A student will cooperate, imagine and assume roles, explore personal preferences and meanings, and interact in classroom dramatizations. Understanding Art Forms – The student will compare, connect, and incorporate art forms by describing and analyzing methods of presentation and audience response for theater and dramatic media, including, film, television, electronic media, and other art forms.

Key concepts The student will learn to create a monologue or scene which focuses on strong character objectives.

Skills Create a monologue Analyze dramatic elements that create mood. Identify motives and objectives of a character in a story. Demonstrate how character motives influence actions and outcomes. Create dramatic unity.

Drama content objectives I can create a monologue I can identify motives and objectives of a character in a story. I can understand and demonstrate how character motives influence their actions and outcomes.

Drama common core language objectives The student will research monologues. The student will individually, create and write a monologue. The student will perform their one minute monologue for the class.

vocabulary Script: Story structure, conflict, overall message, dialogue, plot, mood, character motives, tension, objectives Character: person animal, or object in a story Dialogue: when characters talk with each other. Setting: the place the story happens. Events: what happens in a story. Plot structure: sequence of events leading to a climax and resolution Mood : the feel of a piece Conflict: tension between two or more characters or between action and ideas. Dramatic Unity: the feeling of wholeness in a dramatization when all the parts work well together.

Lessons (activities) Telling Stories through Improvisation 7 lessons Process Drama Friends Unit UEN Theater 6th Grade Monologues for Young Men & Women

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