This 7 page document explores a variety of Drama Strategies with definitions, rules and examples of use. This document can be used as revision for pupils or as stimuli starters to be explored through devised work in lesson time.

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 presentation is exploring what can be used as a stimulus, how different stimuli create a variety performances and lyrics as a starting point with success criteria.

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: Power Point presentation that explains, explores and directs pupils into learning about the use of Greek Chorus in theatre. This presentation explores how Greek Chorus has also been used in modern day film and theatre for starting points. Lesson plan has also been included for further explanation on the presentation and what can be used to push pupils further with their explorations. Video links are included on the final slide for sound stimuli and references.

This pack includes: 5 slide power point including script and image stimuli. Finishing off with a success criteria for children to assess themselves on. This Power Point focuses on the use of ‘Marking the Moment’ in drama and how it creates an impact on a performance piece. Also included: ‘Our Day Out’ mini assessment sheet for teacher and pupils, focusing on their knowledge and understanding of the play and techniques used.

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 pack includes: 6 slide Power Point presentation OR 8 slide Power Point presentation to choose from. This pack includes to different Power Points based on interest in topic and abilities of the class. This allows teachers and pupils to manage exploration with multiple resources. Script extracts for practical exploration Lesson plan to accompany. This lesson is for the pupils who do not always want to perform. This lesson focuses on the themes of DNA and the skills required for a director to make a performance come to life. This exercise allows pupils to take turns to be / designate the role of the director and see the difference made in a performance. Method acting and Stanislavski are also covered in this lesson PP, as well as stage design and different stage layouts.

8 slide Power Point advertisement. Lesson Objective: To prepare and rehearse a radio advertisement. This lesson encourages pupils to create a radio advertisement for a new cereal product. Their success criteria is to focus on their tone of voice and the importance it plays in persuasion. (Pupils are encouraged to keep this advertisement as a radio broadcast as this will allow more focus on their voice work). Before sharing their work with the class, a prompt board has been provided for 20 minutes of work where pupils are encouraged to make a mind map, mini-script, editing and rehearsing and pair and share opportunities. Slides of this presentation also present a variety of techniques used in both advertising and radio advertising and a checklist of what must be included.

6 slide Power Point presentation. Script print outs for practical exploration. This lesson focuses on the skills of ‘Marking the Moment’ and ‘Cross Cutting’. These skills are to then be transfered to the performance of a scene from DNA. Pupils will be challenged on their prior-knowledge of these skills and asked how they can add to a performance. Pupils can also use examples from TV and Film for understanding. Pupils are then expected to perform a scene from DNA using these skills and a following success criteria.

Dennis Kelly’s - DNA. 3 slide Power Point Presentation 4 pages of DNA script to accompany (print out opportunity) This lesson focuses on the craft of line delivery and it’s importance on stage and to an audience. Pupils are to explore an example script and how many different ways it can be performed. Pupils are to consider how emotions can change the voice, body language, tone, pitch and pace. Pupils are then provided with script extracts from DNA to explore how this scene can change when experimenting with these different skills.

This pack includes: Power Point presentation for classroom use Word document printouts that further explain the use of Masks in style and prinout opportunities for visual / revision aid and a script to follow. Power Point presentation consists of 6 slides. These slides stimulate conversation on masks used in day-to-day life, how masks can restrict areas of performance in theatre and how it can benefit and enhance others. Also included are success criteria stems and a script.

This 38 page Power Point slide explores the role, responsibility, skills and opportunities that a director faces. This Power Point also includes a ‘key word’ page, examples of both female and male directors, video footage of directors discussing their craft, tips on how to gain work experience if someone wished to explore this role further and activities to try out the role of being a director themselves. Finally, this presentation includes a quiz for pupils to engage with as a variation of how revision is conducted in learning.

This Power Point presentation consists of 8 slides. Learning Objective: To explore Pantomime stock characters and successfully demonstrate them. This presentation starts with a challenge to identify images of stock characters and label their roles / names. For further challenge, pupils can list other stock characters with similar roles in different Pantomimes. Following this is a success criteria list reading for practical exploration. The practical task for this lesson is to create a short scene in groups with identifiable stock characters that have been discussed earlier in the lesson. A scenario has been included in this Power Point if prompts are needed for lower ability groups. A critic board is also included for pupils to follow, should any performances be shown at the end of this lesson. This includes sentence starters on useful and constructive feedback for peers to share. This lesson also includes a plenary for all that has been discussed / explored within the lesson.

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 Power Point is used for a scheme of work focusing on Pantomime. However, it can be easily changed for a focus on the rehearsal process in theatre as a whole. (Recommended for KS3 use but can be a simple recap for KS4). This 11 slide presentation focuses on how a show is created from a strict rehearsal schedule. This lesson also allows pupils to learn about the stage and the correct terms for all stage points. Included in this pack is a blank template of a stage for revision / game purposes - to correctly label each spot on a stage and the correct term. Also included is a printable version with all correct answers. This is also on the Power Point for group discussion. Learning Objectives : To understand the production rehearsal process To develop an understanding of rehearsal techniques

This Power Point presentation is easily adaptable to focus on Set Design as a whole, rather than just for organising a Pantomime. This scheme can be used for KS3 and for KS4 as a recap. This presentation consists of 29 slides. Learning Objectives: To gain some awareness of the set design process. To develop an understanding of the set designer. This lesson covers: Staging Director Scenic Designer Production Stage layouts Prompt questions on benefits / disadvantages of different stage layouts Diagrams Recap Quiz! Black Box theatre exploration Design styles (minimalistic, realistic) Scales Materials Transitions Plenary Also included is an opportunity for pupils to design their own stage design with the challenge to use as many areas covered in this scheme of work. This is also available as a printable document in the pack.

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.

This printout contains 2 pages of script from Dennis Kelly’s DNA. This allows pupils to annotate key themes, punctuation and script-tools used. This printout also prompts pupils with the task of annotating the script for their own future use. Prompting pupils to think about how they would: direct design the set design costumes use appropriate lighting sound for this scene.