Over the years I have taught English, Maths, PSHE, Film Studies, Media Studies as well as Drama. As a result of teaching many subjects I have spent hours creating schemes and resources so I am hoping this will save you a lot of time. I hope it does.
I also have many years experience as a Pastoral Leader / SEN Teacher meaning I also have resources to support effective behaviour management, safeguarding and Special Educational Needs.
Over the years I have taught English, Maths, PSHE, Film Studies, Media Studies as well as Drama. As a result of teaching many subjects I have spent hours creating schemes and resources so I am hoping this will save you a lot of time. I hope it does.
I also have many years experience as a Pastoral Leader / SEN Teacher meaning I also have resources to support effective behaviour management, safeguarding and Special Educational Needs.
This scheme of work contains a lesson focusing on whether fame and fortune is worth it , pictures as a stimulus, music as a stimulus and the Woman in Black film trailer. It can be used as an introduction to Component 1 of the Edexcel GCSE Drama, or can be used as a KS3 scheme of work.
The scheme of work contains lesson objectives, learning outcomes, suggested activities with extension tasks, suggested open and closed questions as well as homework tasks.
This scheme of work was written for a KS3 Drama group. It explores drama in the media through an understanding of soap opera.
The scheme of work contains five lessons. Each lesson has suggested activities with extended activities, lesson objectives, learning outcomes, suggested open and closed questions, homework tasks and links to appropriate resources.
This spontaneous improvisation scheme of work contains three weeks worth of lessons (3 lessons per week). The scheme of work has suggested activities, lesson objectives, learning outcomes, homework, suggested open and closed questions and extension activities.
This student resource is written for students so they can gain a practical understanding of what "Limited", "Adequate", "Competent", "Secure and Sustained" and "Accomplished" means for Edexcel GCSE Drama (2016) Component 1 AO2 criteria.
This rehearsed improvisation lesson plan contains learning objectives, lesson outcomes, suggested activities and homework.
There is a power point that accompanies the lesson plan as well as resources that support delivery.
This drama unit of work is based on character's in a family tree. It has been written for a KS3 Drama group, but could also be used for a devising unit. The unit of work contains lesson objectives, lesson outcomes, suggested activities, suggested open and closed questions and homework.
There is a workbook to accompany the unit of work, as well as four power points.
This lesson plan, power point and resources were created to support the delivery of component 3 section B from the new Edexcel Drama syllabus. It can, however, be used to teach a live performance review from any syllabus.
The focus areas within the lesson are costume, set, lighting, space and levels. These areas are looked at individually working towards the completion of a live performance review.
This lesson plan includes suggested activities, suggested questions, learning objectives and outcomes.
The power point supports the lesson plan but for copyright reasons you will need to insert appropriate live performance still images. This means you could use images from the same performance to complete a live performance review, or from different performances to introduce the topic. Through introducing your own images you will be able to use the resources several times.
The concept of the lesson is that someone has stole a Birthday cake, and students have to investigate this crime by gathering clues which will then be used to create a piece of drama. It can be used for both KS3 and KS4 classes.
This lesson involves completing a market place activity where students will collect information from three stations and then complete drama tasks. There is a team sheet outlining what students need to do, extension tasks at each station and a team work evaluation sheet where students can identify what good team building skills they have used. All information for each station is also included.
The lesson plan includes learning objectives, learning outcomes, suggested activities, personal learning and thinking skills, extension tasks, suggested open and closed questions and cross-curricular links to English and PSHE.
There are five cover lessons included here which are all based on the play "Blood Brothers." These can also be used as one off lessons. Ideally, all of these lessons would benefit from students being able to use the scripts, but this is not essential. The lessons include:
Blood Brothers - A Different Ending?
Mickey and Eddie Lesson
Characters from "Blood Brothers"
Music From "Blood Brothers" (Will need you to print the song lyrics)
Themes from "Blood Brothers"
This bell activity booklet contains 9 drama word searches presented in a booklet form. There is also an answer booklet showing where all of the answers are for each word search. Topics include costume, lighting, set, explorative strategies, voice, movement, genre, elements and mediums.
There are five devising cover or one off drama lessons created for KS4 students. Some will require you to access and print the stimulus, but the lesson is already written. The lessons included are:
Devising - Theatre in Education
Devising - Challenging Stereotypes
Devising - First they came for the Jews (Poem to be downloaded)
Devising - The role of women in society from 1907 to 2017
Devising - From a Picture (Son of Man Picture will need to be downloaded)
There are five drama cover or one off lessons included in this resource. Each lesson includes lesson objectives and tasks. Lessons included in the resource are:
Arbeit Macht Frei Devising
Creating Character Background
Evacuees Devising Cover
Social Media Devising
Understanding Theatre Styles Cover
This resource gives purpose to the evaluation of drama performances. There is a "Judge"role, an "Interpretation Analyst" role, "Objective Enquirer" role and a "Facilitator"role card.
Each role card contains questions that will enable focused and detailed performance analysis.
The cards can be used by groups or individuals.
These differentiated question cards can be used by KS3 and KS4 Drama students when watching pieces of drama. The cards are differentiated for higher, middle and lower ability students within your group.
Hand the cards to students prior to watching the performance and they need to identify elements of the performance that will enable them to answer the question.
There are five KS3 drama cover lessons, as well as a word search that can be used as a bell activity in any drama lesson.
The Street Drama cover involves students creating characters based on the residents in three houses. The students will be able to explore community living through drama.
The Soap Opera cover involves students creating their own soap opera.
The First Line, Setting and Plot Point cover gives students selected information that they use as a starting point to create pieces of drama.
The Old Man and His Grandson by Brothers Grimm cover looks at the discrimination faced by the Grandad and focuses on what the message is.
The Fairy Tale cover looks at creating a different ending to a familiar fairy tale.
This stimuli devising project includes a power point and a student workbook. It can be used for any devising project, and can be used at both KS3 and KS4.
The power point contains lessons where students look at four different stimuli (WB Yeats' He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, the start of Oscar Wilde's The Selfish Giant, Work Place Discrimination and the story of Malala Yousafzai). Students will then compare and contrast these resources to create an original piece of drama. The above content will be delivered over three lessons.
Students will then look at picture stimuli and will compare and contrast two pictures leading to an original performance. I am unable to include the pictures for copyright reasons.
The final part of the project will be where students respond to different forms of possible discriminations (Disability / Homophobia / Sexism / Race ). Although this is one lesson, it has potential to be adapted into an assessment that could last for longer.
There is a student workbook which enables students to keep portfolio evidence as they progress through their lessons.
This unit of work looks at the job role of the actor in terms of what qualities are required, which other roles they work with in the industry, and the final piece of work would be the creation of a power point to educate aspiring actors. Students will also research other roles within the acting industry.
This would ideally need to be delivered in an ICT room, but could be adapted for the classroom provided case studies of job roles could be provided.
There is a unit of work that contains learning objectives, learning outcomes, homework, suggested activities as well as suggested open and closed questions. The unit of work contains six lesson plans.
There is a project pack included which involves students exploring Theatre in Education, the purpose, the similarities and differences to theatre as well as the job roles within Theatre in Education. This forms a homework project that supports the unit of work.
Some of the resources are included, but actor case studies would need to be printed for one lesson. For copyright reasons I am unable to include these.
Two of the resources (Body Image and Derek Bentley) include a scheme of work with accompanying power points to support the delivery. One resource (Art Gallery) includes a power point with an accompanying student work book and voice and movement flashcards that can be used in any drama lesson. The Art gallery resource will require you to insert four pictures of your choice in order to create the art gallery. However, all activities within the resource can be used for any picture used.
This KS3 Drama lesson includes a lesson plan, power point, challenge cards, homework activity, bell activity and all resources. These resources also include badges that you can individualise putting students names into them. They can then be printed off as stickers.
Students will investigate a crime that has happened at a house by visiting three stations of clues. They will then create their piece of drama, and have evaluation cards like strategy detective, technique detective and target detective in order to focus the evaluations. There are challenge cards to challenge higher ability students within your group.
This bundle includes two schemes of work that can be delivered during KS3 Drama lessons. One is an Arts in the Media scheme which focuses on soap opera and the second is a Drama Improvisation scheme. Also included in the bundle are four A4 audience role sheets that can be used during performance evaluations. The audience roles include The Interpretation Analyst and The Facilitator. Each sheet has key questions that the audience should consider when watching a performance. The sheets can be rotated to ensure each student completes all four audience roles.