A complete scheme of work, introducing students to the concepts of Ancient Greek Theatre. The scheme covers a variety of ideas and culminates in a summative, performance assessment. Included in this pack: Lesson 1 - The Gods Lesson 2 - Amphitheatres and Antigone Lesson 3 - The Chorus Lesson 4 - Masks Lesson 5 - Devising Lesson 6 - Rehearsing Lesson 7 - Assessment/Performance Assessment sheet Script for assessment (Creon/Chorus dialogue) A great scheme for KS3 drama in particular :)

In this lesson, students will learn how Athens was governed as a direct democracy. They will learn what the key words- oligarchy, monarchy and tyranny is and will understand how the direct democratic model worked in Athens. They will also learn about the Athenian criminal court system and will then enact two different scenarios using drama to better understand the systems. They will be given two scenarios to write down their arguments either for/against and as a class will role play these. This lesson is heavily guided with all of the information needed included. A video and a quiz also makes it engaging for all. This lesson is intended for KS2 but can easily be modified to suit KS3. Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

Teaching Antigone, Oedipus, or Medea? Kick off your Ancient Greek Theater unit with this comprehensive 32-slide PowerPoint. Product addresses important information and concepts such as the Greek playwrights, Chorus, masks and costumes, Aristotle’s Poetics, dramatic terms (hubris, catharsis, hamartia) and Fun Ancient Greek Theater Facts to hook your students.

Drama lessons exploring the beginnings of Western theatre. With subject specific terms and historical references these lessons delve into how Drama began in the Golden age of Ancient Greek history. Using Echo, Cannon and contemporary text these are fun lessons for year 7-8.

A table providing students with the opportunity to compare the Ancient Greek performance conditions with their own director’s concept. Perfect for A Level or GCSE students learning about Antigone, Punchdrunk, Brecht, Stanislavski.

This pack is based on two Greek myths, and each myth has three lessons. Various drama strategies are used as well as individual, paired, group and whole class work. The drama strategies are all explained, and there are also tips for using the pack. Resource sheets and PPT slides are included where necessary. Both myths come with an original version of the story. King Midas and the Golden Touch: Lesson 1: creating a conversation; improvising, planning and rehearsing an ‘off-stage’ scene Uses - improvisation and dialogue Lesson 2: considering what a character should do and what he thinks; creating a conversation Uses - thought tapping and hot seating Lesson 3: improvising a group scene; considering what a character should do and what he thinks; creating an ending for the story Uses - hot seating, improvisation and conscience alley Theseus and the Minotaur: Lesson 1: using body language and tone of voice; considering what a character thinks; thinking, speaking and reacting in role Uses - freeze frames, thought tapping, conscience alley and T.I.R. Lesson 2: considering a character’s feelings; being in role for a whole class drama; deciding on what will happen next Uses - hot seating, sculpture, freeze frame and T.I.R. Lesson 3: choreographing movements; improvising a paired scene, considering a character’s feelings; predicting a character’s actions Uses - movement, improvisation, hot seating and flash backwards & flash forwards

Agamemnon, Comedy, Tragedy, Theatre History, script, masks, scheme of work

Brand New KS3 Greek Theatre Drama Escape Room - 2nd Generation Virtual Escape Room by Cre8tive Resources! Perfect for introducing the origins of theatre and new Key terms and a topic on Greek Plays / Theatre This lasts an hour or under depending on how quick the teams can solve each puzzle! Students love this style of lesson, great as an educational treat for your class. How can this resource be adapted for social distancing? Upload / send the sheets digitally so students can work independently through them (don’t use the keys or PPT tracker if so) Could use as part of a Recovery Curriculum Set the 7 Puzzles for Homework Pairs instead of groups This escape room is completely different from our other Drama Escape Rooms with 7 Brand new Rooms and new styles of Keys and puzzles and riddles. (But works on a similar concept) General Drama Digital Escape Room Blood Brothers Digital Escape Room Product Contents: ☞ Escape Room Interactive Tracker PowerPoint - Keeps the competitive nature on display ☞ Escape Room Puzzle Keys (Six Sets for Six Teams) ☞ Escape Room Team sheet - Record codes, answers clues as they progress through the 7 rooms ☞ Escape Room Puzzles (7 Rooms = 7 Different styles of Puzzles involving numeracy, literacy and lateral thinking) ☞ Teacher Answer Sheet - Quickly confirm to teams they have solved the puzzle correctly ☞ Teacher instructions of how to set up the escape room and what to print and top tips and shortcuts. ☞ Successful Escape Certificates for those that complete the entire challenge (There is a difficult bonus escape too :) for any quick teams ☞ The 7 Rooms each have a specific Puzzle that has been adapted to suit the topic of this Escape Room and is suitable to KS3 and KS4 Student ✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ You may want to check out some of our other great DRAMA resources: Dramatic Works and Theories Christmas Drama Escape Room Stage Production Drama Christmas Bundle Greek Theatre Top Selling Drama Escape Twelfth Night Why is reading Important Assembly

This film offers a brief introduction to the Ancient Greek Chorus from Edith Hall, before Polly Findlay speaks about her contemporary interpretation of the chorus in Don Taylor's translation of Antigone for the National Theatre&'s Olivier theatre in 2012.

Ancient Greek Ideas Assembly Based on Unit 15 How do we use Ancient Greek ideas Today? Know where alpa comes? Why, before beta, giving us alphabet! That's just one neat trick the Ancient Greeks left us, along with the magnificent Olympic Games, fantastic columned buildings, and the written works of one of the greatest minds that ever enriched our planet – Homer. Compare our lives with those of the Ancient Greeks - and work out for yourselves who were smarter! The other Ancient Greek Assembly written by Sue Russell is based on Unit 14 and covers different material - with a helping hand from the Grease cast and .. Homer! (Also available for this unit, set of 5 guided reading play scripts plus quizzes - The Gods, The Olympics - Ancient and Modern, The Arts, War and Greek) Sample Text: Spartan 1: If you lived in Sparta, you had to go! Spartan 2: For us, education was all about producing good soldiers. Spartan 3: We had to join the army when we were 7, and live in barracks, away from our families, in really awful conditions. Spartan 4: We just had a mat for a bed. Spartan 5: We weren't allowed shoes. Spartan 6: We were told to steal for food - and then we were beaten if we got caught! Spartan 7: Us girls had to live in barracks too. Spartan 8: We were trained to become strong, so that as strong mums we'd make strong babies! Narrator: What a terrible life! (Turning to Hoodies). You wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes! Greek child 1: And if you think we had it tough up to school-leaving age - that was 15 - wait ‘til you hear what some of us had to put up with afterwards. (Enter Great Thinkers). All Greek children (together): That Lot! •1. Theme music to Mastermind Plato and Aristotle: How lucky they were - to share our (holding heads) great brains! Other Ancient Civilisation scripts written by Sue Russell (available off www.plays-r-ussell.com until added to TES website): Assemblies: Ancient Greece (2 assemblies, Units 14 & 15) Ancient Egypt Ancient China Ancient Rome Indus Valley Ancient Sumer Baghdad: Early Islamic Civilisation Maya civilisation Benin civilisation & Aztecs Majority of these have supplementary guided reading scripts e.g. Ancient Greek Myth Guided Reading Scripts and quizzes Play 1 Odysseus and the Cyclops Play 2 Theseus and the Minotaur Play 3 Tale of Two Spinners Play 4 The Gorgon's Head Play 5 Pandora's Box Also available, if you need ‘the Big Picture’: Ancient Civilisations Assembly – a collective assembly, covering 6 ancient civilisations, answering questions When? and Where? Ancient Civilisations History of Medicine Assembly

Covers lesson for comparing Athens and Sparta, The Olympics and the Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis. Topics also inlcuded: Ancient Olympics. please leave feedback

An original and humorous class assembly script based on the Ancient Greeks including such characters as Zeus, Hercules, Athena, Medusa and Odysseus! Includes around 20 speaking roles, although ‘CH’ (short for child) lines could be easily stretched to a class of 30. Also includes all music files for appropriate class songs and character entrance music suggestions and a PowerPoint presentation slide if needed. Your Assembly will include; Full script, suitable for up to 30 children PowerPoint Presentation slide, to use as a background picture to the assembly Sound effects/excerpts for character entrances (battle sounds, Chariots of fire excerpt, Zero to Hero excerpt, Friend in Me excerpt) Assembly Songs for the class to sing; - Respect, Aretha Franklin - Go the Distance, from the Disney film ‘Hercules’

Thorough description of what was going down in Ancient Greece in Theatrical terms. If it was in a toga on an amphitheatre in Athens, it’s here! Painstakingly put together by the Elves of Drama, with love, for you.

This is a 6 lesson scheme of work exploring different theatrical traditions and styles around the world. The download includes 6 fully prepared power-point lessons and all additional worksheets and resources. This also includes and assessment lesson. All lessons are easily adaptable to suit the needs of classes. Lesson 1 - Ancient Greek Theatre and Chorus Lesson 2 - African Theatre Lesson 3 - Chinese Theatre/Peking Opera Lesson 4 - French Mime Theatre Lesson 5 - Recap and assessment preperation Lesson 6 - Assessment Lesson

Ancient Greek Guided Reading Scripts Based on Units 14 and 15 – 5 plays (6 speakers each) and quizzes Who were weirder - Greek gods or mortals? Whether in sport, recreation or war, those Greeks certainly had some strange ‘takes' on life - a visit to the theatre would more than confirm this view ..... if you got one, along with 20,000 others! This set of 5 group readers or guided reading texts cover: 1. The Gods 2. The Olympics - Ancient and Modern 3. The Arts 4. War 5. Greek Theater These mini plays are based on Units 14 (The Ancient Greeks) and 15 (How do we use Greek ideas today?) of the UK Key Stage II History curriculum and aim to cover all the major teaching points - with accompanying quizzes to assess learning. Sample Text Play 1 The Gods Speakers: Zeus (king of the gods), Hera (queen of the gods), Apollo (sun god), Ares (god of war), Athena (god of wisdom), Hades (god of the underworld) Hades: But then to be bought up by a goat? Bet that made you feel a bit of a silly billy! Zeus: You might laugh! But you'd still be inside Kronos, along with Hestia, Demeter, Poseidon and Hera if it weren't for me! Hera (grudgingly): Yes, we do all owe you that one debt of gratitude. Though making Kronos sick! Couldn't you have thought of a slightly more dignified way of getting us out! Play 2 The Olympics - Ancient and Modern Speakers: Sostratos (wrestler/boxer), Steve Redgrave (rower), Leonidas (runner),Mark Spitz (swimmer) Kallipateira (boxer's mother), Olga Korbut (gymnast) Leonidas: Good heavens! They'll be telling us they get their horses to perform, next! Redgrave: Funny you should mention that! Yes we do! It's called dressage, and horses nowadays have to jump over fences as well! Play 3 The Arts Play 4 War! Play 5 Greek Theatre Other Ancient Civilisation scripts written by Sue Russell (available off www.plays-r-ussell.com until added to TES website): Assemblies: Ancient Greece (2 assemblies, Units 14 & 15) Ancient Egypt Ancient China Ancient Rome Indus Valley Ancient Sumer Baghdad: Early Islamic Civilisation Maya civilisation Benin civilisation & Aztecs Majority of these have supplementary guided reading scripts e.g. Ancient Greek Myth Guided Reading Scripts and quizzes Play 1 Odysseus and the Cyclops Play 2 Theseus and the Minotaur Play 3 Tale of Two Spinners Play 4 The Gorgon's Head Play 5 Pandora's Box Also available, if you need ‘the Big Picture’: Ancient Civilisations Assembly – a collective assembly, covering 6 ancient civilisations, answering questions When? and Where? Ancient Civilisations History of Medicine Assembly

Myth story template KS1 & 2 Myth story planning template. A resource for pupils to use to plan their own mythological writing. Includes a bullet point reminder of the rules for writing myths and spaces for pupils to develop character description, setting and plan the structure of their story. Great to use following a myths writing lesson or drama. Can also be used with topics : Myths and Legends, Ancient Greece, Greece, Heroes and Heroines/Superheroes.**

This activity pack can be used in conjunction with the Greek Plays written by theatre workshop or used to inspire your pupils in drama and craft activities. Theatre Workshop celebrates 25 years of touring UK schools. www.theatreworkshop.co.uk

Ancient Greek Assembly or Class Play Cast Size: 30 Duration: Around 20 minutes (not incl. music suggestions) Marvel at the braininess of the greatest philosophers of all time and gaze in wonder at those Olympian sportsmen limbering up ..in their birthday suits! This assembly on Ancient Greece covers Unit 15. It gives information at the beginning about geography and history (Timeline), identifies differences between learned Athenians and warlike Spartans; then there's the Gods and the Olympic Games, Life in the Spartan Army; then the philosophers/educational elite and finally a couple of brief Ancient Myth samples - Theseus and the Minotaur and Hercules and his 12 tasks. Another assembly written by Sue Russell on the Ideas of the Ancient Greeks is based on Unit 14 and covers different material - including the origins of our alphabet. (Also available: set of 5 guided reading play scripts (Readers Theater) plus quizzes- The Gods, The Olympics - Ancient and Modern, The Arts, War, and Greek Theatre). Plus another set on The Ancient Greek Myths. ________________________________________ Other Ancient Civilisation scripts written by Sue Russell (available off www.plays-r-ussell.com until added to TES website): Assemblies: Ancient Egypt Ancient China Ancient Rome Indus Valley Ancient Sumer Baghdad: Early Islamic Civilisation Maya civilisation Benin civilisation & Aztecs Majority of these have supplementary guided reading scripts Also available, if you need ‘the Big Picture’: Ancient Civilisations Assembly – a collective assembly, covering 6 ancient civilisations, answering questions When? and Where? Ancient Civilisations History of Medicine Assembly

Just finished this assembly with my Y5 class, it went so well and they loved it. It involves an ‘X factor’ style show where each Greek god auditions to be king of the gods, whilst telling the audience a little bit about the Ancient Greeks. It involves throwing confetti at the audience, a dance routine to music from Disney’s Hercules, and a boy dressing up as Cheryl Cole…if you want. Adapt and use as you want. Enjoy.

A 37 Page PPT with accompanying 5 page handout for students. Covers a lots of content , including; The background to Theatre, The Great Spring Festival, The Theatre (Venues), The layout of a theatre - Orchestra, Parados, Skene, Altar, Seating, The audience, Sound effects, Special effects, Props, The Chorus, The Actors /Performers, Costumes, Masks, How plays were chosen (the Competition). Very Visual with lots of images and diagrams. A handout for students is included in the Zip folder so they can view the PPT without having to write down all content. Suitable for Junior to Senior years studying Ancient Greece or a Drama Class

Online Greek Theatre Drama Unit. Five full lessons where students conduct their own research and present their information in creative ways that they can post to Google classroom or other online learning platforms. Any lesson can be used for assessment depending on ability.