I am an 'Outstanding' qualified Secondary Drama teacher who currently teaches KS3 & KS4 English and KS3-KS5 Drama. I have also taught KS1 for two consecutive years prior to this.
I own a First BA (hons) degree in Drama and Performance and have been teaching for three years.
I am an 'Outstanding' qualified Secondary Drama teacher who currently teaches KS3 & KS4 English and KS3-KS5 Drama. I have also taught KS1 for two consecutive years prior to this.
I own a First BA (hons) degree in Drama and Performance and have been teaching for three years.
Included are:
Presentation on script expectations in Drama, image board for visual support, and video link of adaptation from the script itself.
PDF script for students to hold.
This KS3 Drama assessment sheet allows pupils to answer questions based on scriptwriting, drama styles, panto and stage directions.
This sheet is for easy understanding on a pupils ability and understanding for the KS3 drama curriculum.
This pack includes:
Power Point presentation for classroom use
Word document printouts that further explain characters for visual / revision aid and script to follow Commedia Dell’Arte format.
Power Point presentation consists of 6 slides. These slides cover key characters and modern day representation of notable characteristics, success criteria and scenario starters for practical exploration.
This includes:
Power Point exploring Basic Drama skills with a restaurant-themed stimulus. This then expands into a traditional home-dinner setting with a bonus task of mirroring against a ‘dinner party gone wrong’.
Lesson plan further explaining the slides on the Power Point with extra tasks for excelling pupils.
This KS2 / KS3 document is a printable aid for Drama assessments.
41 Key drama terms with space for meaning / example writing to assess and understand pupils understanding on each term.
This pack includes:
12 slide Power Point presentation.
Newspaper article stencil for printout.
Newspaper example with labels
This lesson focuses on the difference in persuasive and manipulative language. Including different emotions that both techniques prompt in their target audiences to help sell their product.
Main Task: Using the magazine template, create a magazine article based on a product you are trying to sell.
(Success criteria encourages pupils to focus either on persuasive or manipulative language and different prompts for emotional connections to the product). Questions are also included to help pupils focus on all areas in which they will need to consider.
This 6 slide Power Point is a quick and easy presentation for the introduction of Pantomime in Drama.
This slide introduces Pantomime’s beginning, exploration of genre and a breakdown of history. This follows examples of Panto, character styles with well-known examples, stock characters and theatre techniques.
This Power Point offers no practical activity but can be used as a visual breakdown with discussion points.
Lesson Objective: To introduce pantomime as a genre, exploring its traditions and stock characters.
This pack includes:
10 slide Power Point presentation.
Storyboard template printout.
This lesson is designed for a Drama class but can be adapted to fit an English or Media setting.
Focusing on Advertising, this lesson prompts discussion on persuasive language, music, adjectives, direct address and more.
There are video links included that explore different styles of advertisement for different audience types. This prompts discussion on target audiences and how to correctly identify their themes.
Task: Sir Alan Sugar has challenged you with the task of promoting one of the following products through a 30 second TV advertisement:
Note-choose one product only!
Pupils are supplied with 3 different products and descriptions of what they are, what they do and how they benefit the buyer. Pupils are encouraged to use the storyboard (provided as a printout link) to create an advert that would fit their target audience and result in a successful campaign to sell the product.
Quotes taken from both Macbeth & Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ for students to further analyse, explain WHAT is being suggested, HOW it is shown (work class/technique) and WHY this is/was relevant.
These assessment worksheets focus on a KS3 understanding of Drama in education. They allow opportunity to focus on terminology and give examples of how it is used and where it may have been used in a pupils learning.
These worksheets can be used for KS4/KS5 learning as a source of reflection / extending knowledge of Drama that is not on the UK curriculum.
This pack includes two lesson presentations and two print out Word documents for visual aid or revision.
These lessons focus on the stagecraft of Commedia, characters and notable characteristics, masks and exploration of physical theatre and script / scenario stimuli.
38 page Power Point based on Timothy Winters.
This scheme focuses on Timothy Winters as a character, the impact of news articles, Still Images and Conscience Alley.
This 6 slide Power Point presentation explores different roles in the world of theatre that do not just focus on being an actor.
This lesson allows conversation and research into a variety of important roles and gives pupils the chance to focus on Drama as a subject of choice and differentiation.
Areas of focus are:
Lighting Technician
Sound Designer
Director
Costume Designer
This lesson delves into these roles at a KS3/ early KS4 level. If this was to be adapted for personal use, it could easily be extended for later KS4 and KS5.
This 2 slide Power Point presentation includes quick and easy stimuli for pupils to create from. This lesson provides titles of choice for pupils to devise from and/or quotes to choose from or add to their performance.
This lesson is nice and easy to use during a change in topic or for a change in focus.
This pack includes:
Power Point presentation
8 page and complete lesson plan including differentiation and challenge.
5 slide Power Point presentation covering starter task, conversation starters, image stimuli, colour-coded terminology and association, success criteria x 2 and challenge for pupils who show greater depth learning.
6 Slide Power Point presentation.
2 page lesson plan to accompany.
‘What does it mean to ‘present a speech’?’
This lesson focuses on the skills required to brainstorm, dot point and present a speech. This lesson also tackles the obstacles of nerves, body language and eye contact.
Pupils will be challenged to pick a topic of their interest and form an interesting and confident speech to share their knowledge to the class.
This lesson also includes a BBC News backdrop and accompanying music for atmosphere.
Lesson plan includes tasks for both lower/higher ability pupils. As well as bonus tasks if the lesson is completed earlier than expected.
This lesson can be taught in 1 or 3 parts, depending on ability and interest in topic.
Two lesson presentations on Act One, Scene Six of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, and enhanced focus on Macbeth & Lady Macbeth’s relationship and power dynamic.
Also included: Focus and question stems surrounding both Macbeth & Lady Macbeth’s internal monologues and links to themes within Macbeth.
This also includes document attachments with optional printouts.