Excerpt from Lesson Plan - Introduction to Drama in Year Eight English

Syllabus

Time

Content/learning experiences

elaborations/

Teaching

Class

Assessment

strategies

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content
Introduction:
3 min.

Formative:

Mark the class roll. Reorient students to the topic of

Direct

Whole class

Laptop for

Drama, and explain what it will involve. Throughout

instruction

discussion

roll marking

the next three weeks, students will participate in a

(desks)

range of cooperative drama workshops and activities,

transpose a scene from their cultural novels into a
script, and perform short plays in small groups.
Students use

10

Students participate in a brief icebreaker activity.

Icebreaker

Group work,

Observe

Balcony

collaborative

min.

Instruct them to form pairs and stand in their own

activity,

movement

students

space

processes, e.g.

space around the room (it may be necessary to move

cooperative

around the

willingness

play-building,

to the adjacent balcony). In these pairs, they sit on the

student-

classroom

to work

performances,

floor, back to back, and with their arms linked. Each

centred

cooperatively

and digital

pair tries to stand up together. When they are

learning

with others

compositions to

successful, they can combine with another pair to form

to achieve a

construct texts.

a group of four, then eight. Continue until the whole

specified

class attempts to stand up together. Following this,

goal

discuss what was needed to successfully stand up,

emphasising the necessity for cooperation.
Body:
10

On the whiteboard, construct a whole class mind-map

Brainstorm-

Whole class

Take note of

Whiteboard,

min.

to introduce the topic of Drama. Students brainstorm

ing,

discussion

which

whiteboard

any related words and phrases, and copy the mind

cooperative

(desks)

students

markers,

map into their English books.

learning

contribute to

English

class

books

discussions
Students

15

Hand out the Comparing Novel to Script worksheet.

Direct

Whole class

Observe

Comparing

understand,

min.

Read through the novel excerpt, and then select

instruction,

discussion,

students

Novel to

interpret, and

students to read the lines of the two characters in the

progressing

individual

capacity to

Script

discuss how

related script. Hold a brief discussion that compares

to

work (desks)

compare and

worksheet,

language is

the two texts before instructing students to glue the

independent

contrast a

English

compressed to

worksheet into their English books and answer the

learning

novel and a

books

produce a

questions independently.

script.

dramatic effect in
film or drama.

Conclusion:
2 min.

Instruct students to pack away their books. Encourage

Direct

Whole class

them to read their cultural novels as much as possible

instruction

discussion

at home, as this will help them to prepare for the

composition of their scripts.

(desks)