John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Fractured Families in American Drama Lesson Plan
Part of a larger unit comparing O'Neill's and Tennessee Williams's work, this lesson focuses on family dynamics in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Other
Creative Drama & Theatre Education Resource Site
Contains a large amount of information on creative drama including classroom ideas, theater games, plays for performance, and more.
Other
Childdrama: Creative Drama Lesson Plans
Many lesson plans with ideas for teachers and students, sorted by age and by type! Wonderful for thematic approaches.
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Integration of Art and Drama
A 7-day unit of lessons integrating art with drama. Artists covered include Filippo Brunelleschi, Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, and five Indiana artists.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding Drama
A learning module that teaches students how to understand drama in four mini lessons: Introduction, Inference-Connecting the Dots, Complex Inference-Using Hidden Clues, and Your Turn.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Archetypes, Motifs, and Plot in Drama (English Ii Reading)
In this lesson, students will learn more about archetypes and motifs, and they will write a scene from a play, incorporating what you have learned into your scene.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding Literary Text: Archetypes, Motifs, & Plot in Drama
A learning module that teaches students about archetypes, motifs, and plot in six mini-lessons: Introduction, Character Archetypes, Archetypal Plot Patterns, Other Archetypal Patterns, Archetypal Motifs, and Your Turn.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Studying Character in Drama
Online lesson that allows learners to study and follow a Shakespearean character throughout a play, analyzing their actions, traits and dialogue as clues to characterization.
Crayola
Crayola: Castle in the Sun (Lesson Plan)
This lesson plan incorporates art, drama, social studies, and language arts. Students use recycled paper and boxes to create a castle, then use it as inspiration to write and act out their own play. (To access this lesson plan, you must...
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Art Lesson Plans
The main page for this site's section on lesson plans. It describes how to build an art lesson plan and has links to instructional activity collections for all grade bands, for substitute teachers, integration with drama, cartoon...
Other
Children's Theatre: Creative Drama
A playwright's website that explores various aspects of children's theatre. Includes definitions, lesson plans, books and plenty of ideas.
PBS
Pbs: Oedipus the King: An Introduction to Greek Drama
One of the main objectives for this lesson is for students to gain an insight into Greek tragedy. This site features a detailed lesson plan.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Drama: Characteristics of a Drama
This lesson focuses on the characteristics of a drama including the four elements of a play: characters, dialogue, action, and gesture. It features a presentation of characterisics of drama, a Wikipedia article "Drama," and Quizlet:...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Elizabethan Drama
This is a lesson on Elizabethan drama leading up the the reading of Shakespeare's Macbeth. It discusses the precursor mystery or morality plays including links to Everyman, the most famous of these. It continues with a discussion of how...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Drama: Introduction to a Raisin in the Sun
This lesson is an introduction to the play "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry, which is set in Chicago in the 1950s. It features links to two of Langston Hughes's poems that influenced the title of the play and a Lorraine...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Rl.3.5: Refer to Parts of Stories, Dramas, and Poems
Links to 73 lessons that focus on skills within third grade reading standard RL.3.5.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Drama: Vocabulary
This lesson focuses on vocabulary. It features links to "A Raisin in the Sun" vocabulary handout, Free Rice: English Vocabulary Game, and the online dictionary Vocabulary.com. It also offers "A Raisin in the Sun" vocabulary interactives.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Drama: A Raisin in the Sun Act Ii
This lesson focuses on Act II of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry including the symbolism in the play. It features links to a study guide, Spark Notes and Shmoop summaries of the play, and an NPR: A Raisin In the Sun Broadway...
Teachnology
Teachnology: Music Lesson Plans
Great lesson plans covering a wide-range of music-related subjects. A wonderful resource for wonderful teachers!
Other
Teach With Movies: Lesson Plans Based on Shorts and Clips
Links to many video-clip based lessons in the areas of health, English language arts & drama, mathematics, music, biology, earth science, inventions, astronomy, physics, chemistry, U.S. history and culture, and world history and...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: The Reality of Digital Drama (6 8)
Students discuss their impressions of peer drama, both online and as depicted on reality TV. Students compare and contrast two videos - one featuring a candid discussion between middle school students about online drama and the other...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Process Drama in the Classroom
This lesson plan for using process drama in the classroom includes an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Unlocking Symbolism/themes in Drama
Online lesson which uses Hansberry's "Raisin in the Sun" to teach the concepts of symbolism and theme in a dramatic work. Students learn the importance and significance of these terms as they study this work and other works of drama....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Characters and Staging in Drama
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will analyze how different playwrights characterize, or develop, their protagonists and antagonists through the dialogue and staging of their plays.
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