I have worked in the vocational Performing Arts sector my whole life, in 2011 I qualified with my PGCE in Drama and Dance was formerly Head of Drama and currently work as a teacher of Drama and English. All of my resources have been tried and tested in the classroom and enjoyed by all who have used them. I have suggested the year group in the title for each resource but feel free to use them how you like. Hope you enjoy my contribution. I’d be grateful for reviews or feedback - enjoy!
I have worked in the vocational Performing Arts sector my whole life, in 2011 I qualified with my PGCE in Drama and Dance was formerly Head of Drama and currently work as a teacher of Drama and English. All of my resources have been tried and tested in the classroom and enjoyed by all who have used them. I have suggested the year group in the title for each resource but feel free to use them how you like. Hope you enjoy my contribution. I’d be grateful for reviews or feedback - enjoy!
A generic ‘Drama’ word search for use as a filler or consolidation of key terms.
Words:
ACTOR AUDIENCE BACKSTAGE
COMEDY COSTUME DIRECTOR
LIGHTS MUSICAL PROPS
SCENARY SHAKESPEARE STAGE
TEXT THEATRE TRAGEDY
WNGS
The aim of this scheme of work is to introduce students to the devising process through practical exercise, research and log book entry, using Commedia Dell’Arte and Pantomime as a stimulus.
This could be used in Year 9 to get a ‘taste’ of devising a full length piece at KS3 ready for GCSE KS4 or could be used as a practise or assessed devised component in Year 10 or 11. This is especially helpful for weaker students who need a firmer underpinning in devising or would benefit from a more structured approach.
Included in this comprehensive scheme of work are:
Full scheme of work / overview week by week
Log book for students, which includes key vocabulary and even tips for analyse and evaluate live theatre.
Full set of lesson plans, starting lesson by lesson, then week by week as students devise / rehearse.
Powerpoint presentations on both Commedia Dell’Atre and Pantomime with links to video clips.
In the first instance students look at ‘Alota Chocolata’ from 10 GCSE Plays
However any Commedia / Melodrama script could be used.
If you enjoy my resources I’d be grateful for any feedback or reviews.
Happy Drama!
This resource is recommended for Years 7 or 8.
Inspired by the all child musical Bugsy Malone, this unit acknowledges the popularity of musicals. It provides the opportunity for pupils to experience a lively and expressive dance form.
• The unit focuses on basic aspects of modern theatre technique and expression and portraying energy and correct tempo.
• Technical skills Introduction to modern theatre dance style. Transference of their technical skills to typical musical theatre dance structure. Introducing basic lifts.
• Expressive skills Use of focus and facial expression to support the mood of the dance. Use of correct timing and tempo to correctly depict the variance in the music.
• Choreographic skills pupils will reflect the structure of the dance work and the narrative. Pupils will use a variety of group sizes and relationships, with some opportunity solo, duet and trio work.
• Appreciation skills Pupils are provided with the opportunity to interpret and analyse Bugsy Malone and discuss this in the context of other more modern musicals. The work will also introduce students to a basic knowledge and understanding of the development and changes in musical theatre.
This online full unit of work created for online or classroom based learning includes a 40 page / 6 lesson PowerPoint, which introduces students to:
Tableau
Proxemics
Thought Track
A short story
Narration
Monologue
Creating a scene
This includes all resources and video links that teachers can use with the students work to build up a picture of progress and tracking from the start of the new school year in Year 8 KS3.
The play DNA was first staged in 2007 at the National Theatre before going on national tour for the first time. It’s a play about a group of teenagers, who could be described as a ‘gang’, who have accidentally killed one of their classmates.
This online full unit of work created for online or classroom based learning includes a 54 page PowerPoint, which looks in detail at the play and concludes with a detailed assessment task.
Students will analyse:
The text to understand the characters, plot and themes of the play, Develop a range of theatrical skills which could be applied to performance and generate, develop and communicate ideas which could be used at a later date in performance or for theory work specifically through:
Hierarchy
Tension
Dialogue
Character traits
Voice
Rhythm
Emotion
Power
Mime
Placards
Narration
Off-text Improvisation
Conscience corridor
Cross-cutting
Hot-seating
Design
This is invaluable if studying the text at GCSE level. Set text for Pearson Edexcel GCSE Drama.
This online full unit of work created for online or classroom based learning includes a 25 page / 6 lesson PowerPoint, which introduces students to:
Short story writing
Writing a script
Set Design
3D Set Design
Costume
Monologue
Teachers can use the students work to build up a picture of progress and tracking from the start of the new school year in Year 7 KS3.
This unit of work, lesson plans, set dance and literature is recommended for Year 8 Dance.
The unit focuses on the basic techniques of Hip Hop dance and brings in ideas taken from Parkour.
• Technical skills Introduction to an urban style of dance and further contact work. Transference of their technical skills to typical style with strict rhythm.
• Expressive skills Pupils will be encouraged to use a sound rhythmic structure to their performance, moving on and off the beat precisely. Pupils should also show a clarity and control when landing, moving over and around other dancers.
• Choreographic skills Pupils will use a variety of group sizes and relationships, with some opportunity solo, duet and trio work. The use of ‘tagging in’ will be explored for transition.
• Appreciation skills Pupils will view pictures and video and describe the key action, spatial, and dynamic relationship features. For example the action of the traceurs as they move around the city. Comment on the views and opinions expressed by leading professionals in parkour and Hip Hop dance.
This scheme of work and 6 lesson plans is designed to be used as an introductory resource for teachers welcoming new Year 7 students in to Drama.
The scheme encourages students to explore their imagination, without having to lead them too much, hence creating a good starting point to judge their baseline level upon entry.
Teachers can then use the students first levels to build up a picture of progress and tracking from the start of the new school Year.
I have also included a bonus introductory task that can be used at the start of the scheme, if time permits, that our teachers believe help the creative process.
Enjoy!
This scheme of work and 6 lesson plans are designed to introduce students to the different performance devices that can be used in devised work.
The scheme encourages students to explore their imagination, concentrate on creating and presenting a character, as well as exploring the use of improvisation, scenario and stereotypes, all ending with the creation of a new superhero.
Each lesson in this 6 lesson plan also includes a full break down of practical exercises and activities and links to character stereotypes as their stimulus, to aid students learning. Enjoy!
This bundle includes a full years worth 3 terms of teaching drama in Year 9.
Each scheme of work includes full lesson plans and resources needed to teach each of the six units, for a much reduced price if bought separately .
I have used every scheme of work in my lessons with great success.
Enjoy! Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
This online full unit of work created for online, blended or classroom based learning includes a 45 page / 6 lesson PowerPoint, which introduces and develops students to:
Tableau
Character
Social context
Setting
Time period
Proxemics
Research
Thought track
Stanza
Neglect
Background
Poem
Writing In-role
Hot-seating
Conscience Alley
Monologue
Key skills
This includes all resources that teachers can use with the students work to build up a picture of progress and tracking in Year 9 KS3 or could be used as an introduction to devising in KS4 Year 10/11 for the new recommendations.
This scheme of work and 6 lesson plans are designed to be used with ‘Forty short plays: Plays and sketches for the classroom which can be bought online
but can be used with any set of short scripts, for example there are many free scripts available online also.
The scheme encourages students to build upon their knowledge of creating a character by now thinking about using stage directions and taking own the perspective of the director.
Included are also a sheet which highlights the role of the director and stage directions, as well as suggested scripts to use.
Each lesson in this 6 lesson plan also includes a full break down of practical exercises and activities, to aid their students learning. Enjoy!
This worksheet was designed to give injured students or students not participating in the practical lesson something to focus on, by analysing students in the practical lesson.
It looks at:
Warm up
Skills
Dance features
Evaluation
This worksheet is for students at home self-isolating who need to be working from home. There are a selection of 12 tasks based on different learning styles: written, oral and visual in relation to both directing and performing and 3 extension activities.
Recommended for Year 9 / 8th Grade / age 13-14
Fully editable- Feel free to use it as you wish.
This presentation analysis power, culture and gender in Indian Kathak Dance and would be suitable for anyone studying dance at GCSE / A Level.
It explores:
Kathak - which dates back to the twelfth century and the North Indian invasion of the Moghuls.
How until that point, Natya had dominated and had been a very important part of religious ritual.
How it is a fusion of Arabic and Hindu and became popular as a form of entertainment.
And how Bharata Natyam is a religious convention passed down from Father to Son. (Southern India)
Included is also a video links.
This scheme of work and 6 lesson plans are designed to introduce students to the different performance devices and explorative strategies, that can be used in devised work.
The scheme encourages students to analyse character through exploratory methods, such as in role writing, hot-seating and tableau to successfully present the characters analysed in a poem.
Each lesson in this 6 lesson plan also includes a full break down of practical exercises and activities and links to the poem ‘Timothy Winters, by Charles Causley, as their stimulus, to aid students learning. Enjoy!
This scheme of work and 6 lesson plans are designed to introduce students to the different performance devices and explorative strategies, that can be used in performing and analysing Romeo and Juliet.
The scheme encourages students to analyse character through exploratory methods, such as experimentation of theme, improvisation and developing a contemporary scene based on the play.
Each lesson in this 6-lesson plan also includes a full break down of practical exercises and activities, as well as synopsis, scenes, character cards, a shortened version of the play and character break down, to aid students learning. Enjoy!
This bundle includes an invaluable start to teaching drama under new restrictions either online or in the classroom.
Each scheme of work includes all of the resources or links or video needed to teach each of the three units, for a much reduced price if bought separately.
Introduction to Drama online or in the classroom
Soap Opera online or in the classroom
Staging Theatre, lighting and the fourth wall online or in the classroom
Enjoy! Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
Inspired by professional dance works, Petrushka, River dance and Walt Disney’s Fantasia.
The unit makes cross-curricular links with music and history taking on a social and cultural theme and setting.
The unit focuses developing an awareness of social/folk dance in a cultural context.
Technical skills Introduction to folk dance technique using a Russian theme. Development of characterisation. Transference of their technical skills to typical Russian dance structures.
Expressive skills Pupils will be asked to play contrasting roles, taking on a variety of roles depicting characters at the social setting of a fairground, as in Petrushka.
Use of focus and facial expression to assist in the telling of a narrative and to support the mood of the dance.
Choreographic skills pupils will reflect the structure of the dance work and the narrative. Pupils will use a variety of group sizes and relationships, with some opportunity solo, duet and trio work.
Appreciation skills Pupils are provided with the opportunity to interpret and analyse the professional performance, they will discuss the social and cultural influences surrounding the event gaining a greater awareness of the influences of folk dance throughout Europe. The work will also introduce students to a basic knowledge and understanding of the development and changes in Ballet in the early 20th Century. Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes etc.
This 24 page booklet is designed to support your students in either their devised or final scripted exam and is to be used in the workshop phase at KS4
Each week a task is set for your students to complete, this can be done to help improve character, log what has been achieved in lesson and help constructing their piece for their practical exam.
Included:
Page 3 – Calendar and Diary
Page 4 – Example of diary entry
Pages 5&6 – Research and planning
Pages 7&8 – Character development – Role on the wall
Pages 9&10 – Character development – Hot seating
Pages 11 - 14 - Stanislavski, Given Circumstances
Pages 15 – 17 – The Audience
Pages 18 – 20 – Technical & design
Pages 21-23 - Internal dramatic dialogue
Page 24 – Notes on further improvement & development