Lesson 1:

Grade 7 Blacklight Object Theatre

Planning

Stage 1: Desired Results

General Learning
Outcome(s)
To develop competency in communication skills through participation
in and exploration of various dramatic disciplines.

Specific Learning SLO:

Outcome(s) 6. Use techniques of storytelling
8. Demonstrate appropriate rehearsal behaviour and routines
14. Use various stimuli for character development.

Learning Objective(s) 1. Students will cast characters and begin planning for their scene.
2. Students will read Percy Jackson and the lightning thief.
3. Students will plan roles and characters based off the Percy Jackson and
the lightning thief.

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

Summative Assessment N/ A Formative
Assessment Exit Slip
Preproduction questions

Stage 3: Learning Experience

Setup -Alphabet circle Resource -Laptop for
to Bring attendance.

CHECK
PHYSICALLY
READY
EMOTIONALLY
READY
READY TO
PROCEED
Time Content/Description Notes

Organize students:
5 -Please sit in the alphabet circle.

Attendance
-Question of the day:
Today we are going to be looking at a script to start out our blacklight
animated theatre unit. This script is based off a story, what is your favourite
story?
-Fill out attendance for both periods.

Finish take 3
10 Ensure that rubrics are set before class.
Inventory- see which of the grade 7’s still needs to complete their take 3
tableaus.
Remind grade 7’s of 2 stars and a wish. Tell students that they have both a
star and a wish and once they are done they have used both, they have to
wait till everyone else has gone to say another star or wish.

Reflect on process.
What growth have you seen in yourself as an actor? What skills do you
have in your tool box to tell a drama story now?

Transition
We have told a story inspired from an image now we are going to work
towards telling a story from a piece of text.
Students will be taking the story of the lightning thief and converting it into a black light Put links of
3 scene. musicals up
before class
Give a brief intro of the story starts
This is a story by Rick Riordan.
It tells the story of Percy of boy who is half god and half human. Have
Zeus is missing his lightning bolt and Percy is trying to figure out where the lightning bolt
is.
presentation
Along the way he must: ready
-Fight monsters
-Save his mom
-Discover that his own powers.

3 Create Companies 23 students

 Listen up to hear your new companies. These companies will be
who you make a black light object scene with. Your first goal as
a company is the read through the entire script.

Groups:
1: Scene prologue, 1 and 2 (5 people)
-Rasool, Yuvika, Vanessa, Kaled, Kexin
2: Scene 3 and 4 (5 people)
-Alex, Maria, Derry, Quinton, Joshua
3: Scene 5 and 6 (5 people)
-Sydney, Chelsea, Hunter, Nyuon, Kevin
4: Scene 7 and 8 (4 people)
-Eva, Brendan, Suhani, Mueez
5: Scene 9 (4 people)
-Sorush, Ishana, Barry, Miriam

10 Read through story in companies

The teacher will tell the companies to decide on who is reading
min what part and then read through the entire play. Once you are
in your companies you will need to do decide who is reading
what part. Remember that this cast is only for the read-through
today.

The goal for the companies during the body of the lesson is to
read through entire script. This is in a campfire formation. Tell
the students “When reading the story out loud, make sure you
speak clearly and loudly”. Use your actor voices.

Buffer
If there is extra time have students read through their scene
with more focus on the characters. Encourage students to use
play with character voices. Emphasis that the roles are not set
in stone yet and that this is a time for exploration.
Closure:
5 min
How can your previous work with take 3 tableaus could influence how you
tell this story?
Can one member in your group collect your companies’ scripts and hand
them to me. Once all the script have been collected make a circle in the
middle of the room to Exit Question: Tell me your groups