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Creative Drama & Theatre Education Resource Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains a large amount of information on creative drama including classroom ideas, theater games, plays for performance, and more.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understanding Drama

For Students 7th - 9th
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.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Archetypes, Motifs, and Plot in Drama (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understanding Literary Text: Archetypes, Motifs, & Plot in Drama

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Crayola

Crayola: Castle in the Sun (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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Children's Theatre: Creative Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
A playwright's website that explores various aspects of children's theatre. Includes definitions, lesson plans, books and plenty of ideas.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Drama: Characteristics of a Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
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:...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Elizabethan Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Drama: Introduction to a Raisin in the Sun

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Drama: Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Drama: A Raisin in the Sun Act Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Characters and Staging in Drama

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Characters and Staging in Drama

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Using Tableau and Role Drama to Examine the Ecosystem [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
In this lesson plan, 4th graders use tableaux to dramatize their roles in the food chain of an ecosystem. Next, they write in role arguing why they are important to the ecosystem. This is followed by a debate in the format of a Character...
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Theatre Arts Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This professional actor provides lesson plans for theater arts classes.
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Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety: Picture This (Drama Activity About Sexting)

For Students 9th - 10th
A practical educational sexting resource that addresses and questions the sensitive issue of sending sexually explicit messages or photos electronically with 11-16 year olds. By asking young people to step into the shoes of the...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Arthur Miller Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What do you want to know about the life and work of Arthur Miller? This site features links to lesson plans and information for several of his plays.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Drama

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A learning module with eighteen links to web sites, videos, images, and texts about reading and writing dramas.
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A to Z Teacher Stuff

Lesson Plan z.com: Drama

For Teachers 9th - 10th
LessonPlanZ.com, a searchable online database of lesson plans, provides a listing of drama-related lesson plans.
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A to Z Teacher Stuff

Lesson Plan Z: The Arts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
LessonPlanZ, a searchable online database of lesson plans, provides links to lesson plans for arts and crafts, movement and dance, drama, and music.
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New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: Violent Delights and Violent Ends: Romeo and Juliet

For Teachers 11th - 12th
This lesson plan uses drama games and role playing to enhance the reading and understanding of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It includes pre-reading role play and information about Shakespeare's life and times, during reading drama...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: England 1940's Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of three video lessons from MASTERPIECE: Historical Drama "World on Fire" based on events in England in the 1940's.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Terminology: Practice 5 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] To be "in the know" in literature, you need to know the terminology used to describe, interpret, and analyze poetry, drama, and fiction. As you proceed through the sections...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Shape Stretch

For Teachers 1st
This module features a lesson plan for shapes. Teachers of thie lesson will engage their students in a game that requires the use of balance, movement, and "shape" mathematical concepts.

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