I am an 'Outstanding' qualified Secondary Drama teacher who currently teaches KS3 & KS4 English and KS3-KS5 Drama. I have also taught KS1 for two consecutive years prior to this.
I own a First BA (hons) degree in Drama and Performance and have been teaching for three years.
I am an 'Outstanding' qualified Secondary Drama teacher who currently teaches KS3 & KS4 English and KS3-KS5 Drama. I have also taught KS1 for two consecutive years prior to this.
I own a First BA (hons) degree in Drama and Performance and have been teaching for three years.
This bundle includes 3 Power Point presentations.
Each presentation focuses on the different roles in the theatre industry that do not require you to be an actor.
These lessons are aimed for all year groups and are important to include in your curriculum. Not every pupil in your Drama class will want to be an actor and it is important to include the diverse skills that are required to bring any story to page, stage or screen.
Each Power Point can be adapted with personal preference (directors, producers, composers, etc) but all are covered already with video links and images.
I find these lessons to be popular with the pupils who are more reserved when it comes to performing in front of their peers. This allows them opportunities in your lesson time to design sets, play music, etc.
8 slide Power Point advertisement.
Lesson Objective: To prepare and rehearse a radio advertisement.
This lesson encourages pupils to create a radio advertisement for a new cereal product. Their success criteria is to focus on their tone of voice and the importance it plays in persuasion.
(Pupils are encouraged to keep this advertisement as a radio broadcast as this will allow more focus on their voice work).
Before sharing their work with the class, a prompt board has been provided for 20 minutes of work where pupils are encouraged to make a mind map, mini-script, editing and rehearsing and pair and share opportunities.
Slides of this presentation also present a variety of techniques used in both advertising and radio advertising and a checklist of what must be included.
Simple A4 sheet with 3 tasks (including peer-assessment) for cover requirements.
Tasks include:
Writing a short story
Purple pen/self-assess by adding in deeper technical skills
peer-assess work and provide feedback.
Assessment practice slides.
Three slides with vocabulary taken from George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’. These words have all been taken from an extract in Chapter Eight ‘The Battle of The Windmill’.
Slides later include clear definitions for all vocabulary.
30 slide presentation (including contents page) covering key language used for the introduction of the character of Smaug in Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’.
Each word is broken down into:
Word Class
Word Meaning
Example Sentence
Colour-coding is used throughout and this is to distinguish the nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, and allow visual aid.
Images are also evident on certain slides to allow visual-support for certain vocabulary.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Key quotes from Stave Three that focus on the Cratchit family, their Christmas, and their opinions on Scrooge. Quotes focus around the themes of Povery, Redemption, and Guilt & Blame.
Quotes also ask students to focus on language techniques and their opinions on these moments as a reader of the novella.
Slides are fairly basic but a great starting point for Stave Three discussion and reflection opportunities on past Staves.
Presentation with an image stimulus for Smaug the Dragon in Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’.
This presentation is to prompt students into thinking about their:
Adjectives
Verbs
Adverbs
Senses
& write a descriptive paragraph as if THEY are Bilbo Baggins.
This lesson is aimed as an ‘assumptive’ piece for students who have not read chapters containing Smaug’s character. The aim is to see how they compare the dragon vs how Tolkien uses vocabulary to describe. Pushing for an overall development in their writing abilities and vocabulary range.
9 slide presenation featuring quotes from Stave Four of Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’.
All quotes focus on ‘The Spirit of Christmas Yet To Come’ and Scrooge’s relationship/fear with the last Spirit.
Each quote includes 2-4 questions for students to focus on (ranging from language analysis, character development, language significance, and theme connections)
Colour-coding is evident on every slide to help link keywords and terminology.
This slide presentation consists of four slides and a starter task.
Students are to focus on…
Nancy’s significance to Bill Sikes, Fagin, and their ‘gang’
Bill Sikes’ relationship with his dog in Chapter 15 and the animalistic imagery Dickens portrays.
Nancy and Bill’s relationship status and how the reader may feel about it / Nancy’s rights as a women in Victorian London
Bill’s relationship with beer and Dickens’ continuous description/mentioning of Sikes’ dependency.
Students will be expected to answer What,How,Why styled questions during this lesson and produce quotes from Chapter 15 for evidence.
29 slide PP with contents page which focuses on vocabulary explored within Charles Dickens’ ‘Oliver Twist’.
Most of the vocabulary can be linked to the characterisation of Bill Sikes but vocabulary is apparent throughout the novel.
Each slide is colour coded with the word class (noun,adjective,adverb,verb) accompained by the word meaning and an example sentence of where this word is used in ‘Oliver Twist’.
Pictures are on some slides to help with visual learning and expand understanding on certain vocabulary.
Two lesson presentations on Act One, Scene Six of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, and enhanced focus on Macbeth & Lady Macbeth’s relationship and power dynamic.
Also included: Focus and question stems surrounding both Macbeth & Lady Macbeth’s internal monologues and links to themes within Macbeth.
This also includes document attachments with optional printouts.
Quotes taken from both Macbeth & Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ for students to further analyse, explain WHAT is being suggested, HOW it is shown (work class/technique) and WHY this is/was relevant.
Included are:
Presentation on script expectations in Drama, image board for visual support, and video link of adaptation from the script itself.
PDF script for students to hold.
Lesson slides on War Photographer which cover contextual information, questions, analysis checklists, and annotation prompts.
Also included is an annotated version of War Photographer with explanation.
Lesson slides to support handout also explain what the technique used means / how it is used with effect.
Basic slide for LA class or starter activity for HA class.
Slides contain a device which can be found in Weir’s ‘Poppies’ as well as a definition of what the device means.
Basic slides which discuss what devices can be found in Armitage’s ‘Remains’. These slides can be used as a lesson for a LA class or a starter activity for a HA class. Each device listed also includes a definition to explain what it means.
In this pack includes:
Macbeth context slides (King James I, Witches / Supernatural, Gender roles, Chain of Being, and Heaven & Hell.
Handout contextual sheet from The Harold Pinter theatre’s programme of the 2024 showing of ‘Macbeth’.
