LESSON PLANS: PLAYWRIGHTING

Students adapt a children's story into a script and perform with minimal costumes and sets to emphasize the words used in the piece.

Students learn the script structure for Greek Tragedy and then take a familiar fairy tale and create their own Tragedy.

This activity occurs after a thorough explanation and discussion of what subtext is.

This is good for during rehearsal of class work scenes
or after viewing aplay/movie or scene from one as a class.

Get inspired by the emotions of the scene to create one

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A step-by-step way to teach students an effective way to understand the full process of developing and writing a musical.

To create a new product and then write a commercial to sell it.

Students improvise using the alphabet to forward a story. They will learn to understand sequence in script writing, develop characters, portray two characters in dialogue and memorize lines.