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    Students will participate in drama workshops and activities over three weeks to transpose scenes from their novels into scripts and perform plays. An icebreaker activity has pairs of students sit back to back, link arms, and stand up together to emphasize cooperation. A whole class brainstorming session introduces drama terms which students copy into their books. A worksheet compares a novel excerpt to a script, and students independently answer questions about compressing language for dramatic effect.

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    Students will participate in drama workshops and activities over three weeks to transpose scenes from their novels into scripts and perform plays. An icebreaker activity has pairs of students sit back to back, link arms, and stand up together to emphasize cooperation. A whole class brainstorming session introduces drama terms which students copy into their books. A worksheet compares a novel excerpt to a script, and students independently answer questions about compressing language for dramatic effect.

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    Students will participate in drama workshops and activities over three weeks to transpose scenes from their novels into scripts and perform plays. An icebreaker activity has pairs of students sit back to back, link arms, and stand up together to emphasize cooperation. A whole class brainstorming session introduces drama terms which students copy into their books. A worksheet compares a novel excerpt to a script, and students independently answer questions about compressing language for dramatic effect.

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

    Syllabus

    Time

    Content/learning experiences

    elaborations/

    Teaching

    Class

    Assessment

    strategies

    organisation

    techniques

    Resources

    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)

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