Theatre Fundamentals for Special Needs Students
| Objective: | Students will demonstrate their ability to perform theatre skills by participating in various exercises and activities. |
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| Subject: | Theatre History, Styles & Genres |
| Class Level: | Beginning |
| Main Concepts: | memorization, movement, getting up in front of people |
| National Standards: | CONTENT STANDARD 2: Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions. |
| Description: | This unit was developed originally for a Special Needs theatre class. This class had several special needs students along with peer tutors that also served as teacher aides in conducting activities. There are activities that are theatre-based as well as life skill games. These lessons are designed for 80 minute-long classes. |
| Author: | Hillary Carey |
Lesson Plans
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of body positions by performing pantomimes.
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of Inflection by reading Dr. Seuss to each other and to the class.
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of Dr. Seuss and performing by performing a pantomime about Horton Hears a Who, and working on a scene from Horton Hatches the Egg.
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of imagination and performing by participating in numerous activities and one role-play.
Students will learn how to communicate to each other by creating different role plays dealing with buying and selling.
Students will learn about how they communicate with their friends by creating a piece of drama about friendships.
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of feelings and emotion by creating numerous role plays dealing with emotion.
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of staying safe by participating in class discussion and creating role plays with each other.
Students will demonstrate their ability to make eye contact through numerous exercises.
Students will demonstrate their ability to memorize by participating on numerous exercises and by working on their final performance piece.
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of improvisation, group work, and memorization to perform several improvisations and to memorize their poem.