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Materials Needed for Lesson Drama Structure lesson Snow Update Handout

In this lesson, students will learn about the overall structure of drama and its elements, including acts, scenes, characters, setting, dialogue, stage directions, and theme. They will practice analyzing a script and identifying the theme through a Snow Update handout.

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Materials Needed for Lesson Drama Structure lesson Snow Update Handout

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  1. Materials Needed for Lesson • Drama Structure lesson Snow Update Handout • Independent practice for this lesson All items are available online!

  2. Learning Objective Today we will explain the overall structure of drama CFU What are we going to do today? In your own words, what does ________ mean? ________ means __________. Activate Prior Knowledge What is your favorite TV show? Structure- organization Academic Vocabulary Connection Tv shows are considered drama because they are performance before an audience and follow a special form called a script

  3. Concept Development Drama is a story that is acted out in front of people, or an audience. Plays are written in a special form, which helps you to picture what is happening on stage. This special form is called a script. A script contains the list of characters, the lines the characters say, or the dialogue, and the stage directions. Scheme - arrangement Academic Vocabulary CFU TPS- What is a stanza? What is the idea of the stanza? What image forms in your mind as you read each line of the stanza what is rhyme? What is meter? 1

  4. Concept Development • The Elements of Drama • Acts and Scenes- Plays are divided by into parts called Acts. Acts are divided into smaller parts called scenes • Characters- tell who will appear in the play • Setting- tells where and when the play takes place • Descriptions-Descriptions are related to the setting of the play, but they provide more information about what has already happened before the play begins or how the characters are feeling before the first lines of dialogue. • Dialogue- what the characters say • Stage Directions- Stage directions tell the actors what to do

  5. Concept Development The Elements of Drama con’t Theme- is the lesson or message of a play. To identify the play’s message, look for clues in what the characters say and do, what happens as the result of their actions, and how the characters change. What is the theme? What is your evidence? Treasure items that are passed down from generation to generation. They are special parts of people’s past.

  6. Steps to Complete the Skill: 1 2 Skill Development/ Guided Practice Read text closely and identify parts of a drama Use clues from the script to determine the theme Read Last Snow Update handout and Answer Questions on handout

  7. Relevance Why is it important to understand the structure of drama? It helps us better understand what the drama is about

  8. Steps to Complete the Skill: 1 2 Closure Read text closely and identify parts of a drama Use clues from the script to determine the theme What is the setting? Who are the characters? What does the stage directions tell us about Mrs. Wright’s class?

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