Students practice story telling. In this story telling activity, students work in groups to read a fable and divide it into a beginning, middle, and end. Each member takes a section and practices retelling it with vocals, gestures, and...

Here is a series of five exercises intended to bring movement, dance, and theater into the classroom. Intended for special ed classes, but appropriate for any grade, learners will pantomime, play pretend, dance, move, and create...

Reader's Theater is a great way to build fluency, intonation, and dramatic flare. The class reads the theater piece, "The New Friends" paying attention to how they express emotion and feeling as they read. They discuss the use of plot,...

The class creates and performs a movement performance of the creation story found in the Jewish tradition. This lesson begins with the research of Israeli culture and culminates in a performance of the narrated creation story....

Class members may "think themselves accurs'd" when they first hear of an assignment that asks them to create a motivational speech. After studying the Saint Crispin's Day speech from Shakespeare's Henry V; however, they will count...

Students examine how to model story telling for their classes. They investigate how to learn, rehearse and share stories.

Students engage in a activity that is about searching the attributes of characterization. They practice some of the basic moves involved in acting out a certain character while focusing upon basic skits like "the freeze". The exercise...

Students complete acting exercises as a part of a precise language activity to help them build vocabulary and improve their descriptive writing skills. In this theatre and writing lesson, students create and act out a sentence with two...

Students write a script, planning and recording improvisations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature and history.

Sixth graders recreate scenes from the theories about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. For this history and theatre lesson, 6th graders review the story of Earhart using a flip chart. Students work on one act plays to depict one of...

Second graders complete pantomime and improvisational theatre activities. In this theatre lesson, 2nd graders play a 'sound ball' game and recreate sounds as they toss the ball. Students discuss projection for an actor and practice the...

Young scholars analyze posture and pantomime in an analysis of total body movement. In this body movement lesson, students read a chart of movements and the mood or attitude they convey. Young scholars complete several space and...