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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Additional Resources Drama Lesson Plans - BYU
Elementary Arts Core Guidebook
10 Minute Transition for Developing Life Skills
Drama DVDs & Books available for check out
Theatre Power Points

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. Additional Resources Drama Lesson Plans - BYU
Elementary Arts Core Guidebook
10 Minute Transition for Developing Life Skills
Drama DVDs & Books available for check out
Theatre Power Points
UEN: 1st Grade – Fairy Tale Riddles & Puppet Shows

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

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

21. 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.

22. 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

23. Lessons (Activities)
Process Drama Friends Unit

24. Additional Resources Drama Lesson Plans - BYU
Elementary Arts Core Guidebook
10 Minute Transition for Developing Life Skills
Drama DVDs & Books available for check out
Theatre Power Points
Reader’s Theater—Ms. Gurian’s Glass

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

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

27. 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.

28. 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.

29. 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

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

31. Additional REsources Drama Lesson Plans - BYU
Elementary Arts Core Guidebook
10 Minute Transition for Developing Life Skills
Drama DVDs & Books available for check out
Theatre Power Points
Reader’s Theater—Ms. Gurian’s Glass

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

33. 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.

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

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

36. 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.

37. 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.

38. 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.

39. 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.

40. Additional resources Drama Lesson Plans - BYU
Elementary Arts Core Guidebook
10 Minute Transition for Developing Life Skills
Drama DVDs & Books available for check out
Theatre Power Points
Reader’s Theater—Ms. Gurian’s Glass

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

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

43. 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.

44. 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.

45. 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.

46. 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.

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

48. Additional resources Drama Lesson Plans - BYU
Elementary Arts Core Guidebook
10 Minute Transition for Developing Life Skills
Drama DVDs & Books available for check out
Theatre Power Points
Reader’s Theater—Ms. Gurian’s Glass

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

50. 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.

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

52. 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.

53. 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.

54. 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.

55. 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.

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

57. Additional resources Drama Lesson Plans - BYU
Elementary Arts Core Guidebook
10 Minute Transition for Developing Life Skills
Drama DVDs & Books available for check out
Theatre Power Points
Reader’s Theater—Ms. Gurian’s Glass