This fun 6-week Characterisation & Improvisation scheme explores a variety of skills and techniques to help pupils develop characters that are clearly different from themselves.
All lessons come with detailed powerpoints and supporting resources. No planning is needed, so you are ready to go!
Unit Objectives
- To understand and be able to create realistic characters using various character-building activities.
- To understand and be able to take part in the character-building activities.
- To understand why we use each technique; hot seating, character profile, interviewing.
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Some nice ideas, but (IMO) there isn't enough content in the lessons that would fill an hour and they definitely need to be combined.
Good resources, unfortunately the 4th lesson resources are missing
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