1. Materials Needed for Lesson
Drama Structure lesson Snow Update Handout
Independent practice for this lesson
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2. What is your favorite TV show?
Learning Objective
Today we will explain the overall structure of drama
CFU
What are we going to do today?
In your own words, what does ________ mean? ________ means __________.
Activate Prior Knowledge
What is your favorite TV show?
Structure- organization
Academic Vocabulary
Connection
Tv shows are considered drama because they are performance before an audience and follow a special form called a script

3. Concept Development
Drama is a story that is acted out in front of people, or an audience. Plays are written in a special form, which helps you to picture what is happening on stage. This special form is called a script. A script contains the list of characters, the lines the characters say, or the dialogue, and the stage directions.
Use the displayed poem to provide an example by showing that the two lines fit together with their rhyme. “So, your poem will look like this one, with three stanzas. How will you know if you have a stanza?” If we have two lines that rhyme.
CFU
TPS- What is a stanza? What is the idea of the stanza? What image forms in your mind as you read each line of the stanza what is rhyme? What is meter?
Scheme - arrangement
Academic Vocabulary 1

4. Characters- tell who will appear in the play
Concept Development
The Elements of Drama
Acts and Scenes- Plays are divided by into parts called Acts. Acts are divided into smaller parts called scenes
Characters- tell who will appear in the play
Setting- tells where and when the play takes place
Descriptions-Descriptions are related to the setting of the play, but they provide more information about what has already happened before the play begins or how the characters are feeling before the first lines of dialogue.
Dialogue- what the characters say
Stage Directions- Stage directions tell the actors what to do
Use the displayed poem to provide an example by showing that the two lines fit together with their rhyme. “So, your poem will look like this one, with three stanzas. How will you know if you have a stanza?” If we have two lines that rhyme.

5. What is the theme? What is your evidence?
Concept Development
The Elements of Drama con’t
Theme- is the lesson or message of a play. To identify the play’s message, look for clues in what the characters say and do, what happens as the result of their actions, and how the characters change.
What is the theme? What is your evidence?
Treasure items that are passed down from generation to generation. They are special parts of people’s past.

6. Read Last Snow Update handout and Answer Questions on handout
Skill Development/ Guided Practice
Steps to Complete the Skill: 1 2
Read text closely and identify parts of a drama
Use clues from the script to determine the theme
Read Last Snow Update handout and Answer Questions on handout

7. Why is it important to understand the structure of drama?
Relevance
Why is it important to understand the structure of drama?
It helps us better understand what the drama is about

8. Read text closely and identify parts of a drama
Closure
Steps to Complete the Skill: 1 2
Read text closely and identify parts of a drama
Use clues from the script to determine the theme
What is the setting?
Who are the characters?
What does the stage directions tell us about Mrs. Wright’s class?