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 7 page document explores a variety of Drama Strategies with definitions, rules and examples of use.
This document can be used as revision for pupils or as stimuli starters to be explored through devised work in lesson time.
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.
This 2 slide Power Point presentation includes quick and easy stimuli for pupils to create from. This lesson provides titles of choice for pupils to devise from and/or quotes to choose from or add to their performance.
This lesson is nice and easy to use during a change in topic or for a change in focus.
This pack includes two lesson presentations and two print out Word documents for visual aid or revision.
These lessons focus on the stagecraft of Commedia, characters and notable characteristics, masks and exploration of physical theatre and script / scenario stimuli.
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.
PRINTOUT DOCUMENT.
This assessment document allows teachers the chance to see how well pupils understand and identify the techniques used in advertising.
This paper asks pupils to think back to an advert they have seen (or have studied as a class) and how it meets certain criterias, what it was spreading awareness about / trying to sell, themes, mood, stereotypes and styles.
It asks pupils to identify what the best and worst aspects of the advert and what they would do differently and how.
Finally, it prompts and requires pupils to write a full advert review on what they have seen, using all that they have covered in the previous questions. This review must cover the introduction, plot, acting and conclusion.
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.
Google slide document covering chapter five of Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’.
Slide and lesson covers:
Riddle starter tasks (3 slides worth with answers on following slides)
Youtube link to scene of The Hobbit covering chapter five’s plot
Practice / short writing opportunity for students to focus on the characterisation of Bilbo Baggins from Chapter one-five and the significance of ‘The Ring’
Final ‘hot writing’ task with What, How, Why breakdown question stems on BB’s character growth throughout this chapter.
This printout contains 2 pages of script from Dennis Kelly’s DNA.
This allows pupils to annotate key themes, punctuation and script-tools used.
This printout also prompts pupils with the task of annotating the script for their own future use. Prompting pupils to think about how they would:
direct
design the set
design costumes
use appropriate lighting
sound
for this scene.
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.
Slides produce questions and sentence prompts for the following topics:
Unity / meaning of the word
How this is represented in Animal Farm
Characters that support this idea
Characters that challenge this idea
Final slide also provides an assessment-style question with What, How, Why prompts on how to answer.
Double sided A4 printout or online document for students to complete.
Answering multiple questions/filling out categories to understand Orwell’s character/purpose for the character of Squealer.
A4 prompt sheet which covers Bilbo’s and Gollum’s characterisation in Chapter Five of ‘The Hobbit’, their relationship with one another and writing opportunities to persuade characters to hand over The Ring.
Double sided A4 printout or online document for students to complete.
Answering multiple questions/filling out categories to understand Orwell’s character/purpose for the character of Snowball.
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.
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.
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.
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.
