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 pack includes:
10 slide Power Point presentation.
Storyboard template printout.
This lesson is designed for a Drama class but can be adapted to fit an English or Media setting.
Focusing on Advertising, this lesson prompts discussion on persuasive language, music, adjectives, direct address and more.
There are video links included that explore different styles of advertisement for different audience types. This prompts discussion on target audiences and how to correctly identify their themes.
Task: Sir Alan Sugar has challenged you with the task of promoting one of the following products through a 30 second TV advertisement:
Note-choose one product only!
Pupils are supplied with 3 different products and descriptions of what they are, what they do and how they benefit the buyer. Pupils are encouraged to use the storyboard (provided as a printout link) to create an advert that would fit their target audience and result in a successful campaign to sell the product.
Dennis Kelly’s - DNA
7 Slide introduction Power Point presentation to DNA.
This lesson explores the topics of:
Gangs
Bullying
Links between the two
Streetwear / Street art
This lesson is a great intro to the themes covered in DNA. This lesson allows pupils to explore the themes with personal knowledge and relatable imagery.
This 6 slide Power Point is a quick and easy presentation for the introduction of Pantomime in Drama.
This slide introduces Pantomime’s beginning, exploration of genre and a breakdown of history. This follows examples of Panto, character styles with well-known examples, stock characters and theatre techniques.
This Power Point offers no practical activity but can be used as a visual breakdown with discussion points.
Lesson Objective: To introduce pantomime as a genre, exploring its traditions and stock characters.
38 page Power Point based on Timothy Winters.
This scheme focuses on Timothy Winters as a character, the impact of news articles, Still Images and Conscience Alley.
6 slide Power Point presentation.
Script print outs for practical exploration.
This lesson focuses on the skills of ‘Marking the Moment’ and ‘Cross Cutting’. These skills are to then be transfered to the performance of a scene from DNA. Pupils will be challenged on their prior-knowledge of these skills and asked how they can add to a performance. Pupils can also use examples from TV and Film for understanding.
Pupils are then expected to perform a scene from DNA using these skills and a following success criteria.
This 32 page Power Point presentation explores the role of Set Designer in the theatre industry.
The presentation explores the role, responsibilities, skills and resources needed for this role. This is followed by examples of notable designers, video interview footage, tips on how to gain experience in this field as a beginner and activities to try out the role of being a Set Designer in class.
Following this is a clear breakdown (with images) on how the process of designing a set takes place in the world of theatre.
Both maximalism and minimalism is explored.
Finally, a quiz is included at the end of this quiz to provide an alternative method of revision.
This pack includes:
Power Point presentation that explains, explores and directs pupils into learning about the use of Greek Chorus in theatre.
This presentation explores how Greek Chorus has also been used in modern day film and theatre for starting points.
Lesson plan has also been included for further explanation on the presentation and what can be used to push pupils further with their explorations.
Video links are included on the final slide for sound stimuli and references.
6 slide Power Point focusing on Roald Dahl’s ‘The Twits’.
Focus points are:
Cross-Cutting
Action Clip
Freeze Frame
Hot Seating
Narration
Role Play
Script / Sections of the story have been copied into the presentation for reference.
Music is also available for stimulus and support.
Also included for printout: Character labels, script and a lesson plan.
This Power Point presentation is easily adaptable to focus on Set Design as a whole, rather than just for organising a Pantomime.
This scheme can be used for KS3 and for KS4 as a recap.
This presentation consists of 29 slides.
Learning Objectives:
To gain some awareness of the set design process.
To develop an understanding of the set designer.
This lesson covers:
Staging
Director
Scenic Designer
Production
Stage layouts
Prompt questions on benefits / disadvantages of different stage layouts
Diagrams
Recap Quiz!
Black Box theatre exploration
Design styles (minimalistic, realistic)
Scales
Materials
Transitions
Plenary
Also included is an opportunity for pupils to design their own stage design with the challenge to use as many areas covered in this scheme of work. This is also available as a printable document in the pack.
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.
This presentation is exploring what can be used as a stimulus, how different stimuli create a variety performances and lyrics as a starting point with success criteria.
This 38 page Power Point slide explores the role, responsibility, skills and opportunities that a director faces.
This Power Point also includes a ‘key word’ page, examples of both female and male directors, video footage of directors discussing their craft, tips on how to gain work experience if someone wished to explore this role further and activities to try out the role of being a director themselves.
Finally, this presentation includes a quiz for pupils to engage with as a variation of how revision is conducted in learning.
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.
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.
This KS3 Drama assessment sheet allows pupils to answer questions based on scriptwriting, drama styles, panto and stage directions.
This sheet is for easy understanding on a pupils ability and understanding for the KS3 drama curriculum.
This includes:
Power Point exploring Basic Drama skills with a restaurant-themed stimulus. This then expands into a traditional home-dinner setting with a bonus task of mirroring against a ‘dinner party gone wrong’.
Lesson plan further explaining the slides on the Power Point with extra tasks for excelling pupils.
This pack includes:
5 slide power point including script and image stimuli. Finishing off with a success criteria for children to assess themselves on.
This Power Point focuses on the use of ‘Marking the Moment’ in drama and how it creates an impact on a performance piece.
Also included: ‘Our Day Out’ mini assessment sheet for teacher and pupils, focusing on their knowledge and understanding of the play and techniques used.
This pack includes:
Power Point presentation for classroom use
Word document printouts that further explain characters for visual / revision aid and script to follow Commedia Dell’Arte format.
Power Point presentation consists of 6 slides. These slides cover key characters and modern day representation of notable characteristics, success criteria and scenario starters for practical exploration.
This KS2 / KS3 document is a printable aid for Drama assessments.
41 Key drama terms with space for meaning / example writing to assess and understand pupils understanding on each term.
These assessment worksheets focus on a KS3 understanding of Drama in education. They allow opportunity to focus on terminology and give examples of how it is used and where it may have been used in a pupils learning.
These worksheets can be used for KS4/KS5 learning as a source of reflection / extending knowledge of Drama that is not on the UK curriculum.