First World War scheme of work.

An excellent KS3 resource for drama on the First World War with a complete and ready to go six lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.

In this six lesson SOW students will learn about:

Lesson one: In this lesson students learn how to use a tableau, choral speech, improvisation and a split stage to understand people’s reactions to propangda posters in the lead up to the First World War.

Lesson two: In this lesson students learn about family life in 1914 through the use of tableau’s, thought tracks and role play to explore the roles families had at the time.

Lesson three: In this lesson students learn about the expectation of war vs the reality of war by using tableau’s, mime, cross cutting and marking the moment to examine the First World War.

Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to use music and diaries as a stimulus for a performance based in No Man’s Land through the use of tableau’s, slow motion and soundscapes to represent an attack in a trench during the First World War.

Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to use a poem as a starting point to create a piece of devised drama based on the First World War.

Lesson six: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment on a text stimuli called trench life and under attack to create a variety of soldiers in the First World War in a trench.