Description
Students learn difference between Award Shows such as:
- Academy Awards- also known as the Oscars- for Motion Pictures
- Antoinette Perry Award- also known as Tony’s- for live American Theater
- Golden Globe Award
- Grammy’s, etc….
Materials
- Cameras (which the students can bring in themselves)
- Fake microphones
- Red carpet
- Model trophies
Full Lesson Plan
Around the time of the Academy Awards:
1) Have the students research the different trophies and bring in pictures and trivia from difference Awards show
2) Create a mock-Academy Awards show!
- Select a few students to win the award in class and have to do acceptance speeches
- Assign other students as paparazzi (who get to take pictures), reporters (who get to interview), audience (who get to be interviewed).
- Lay out the red carpet and do spot interviews as the students come into class
Graded On/To Be Turned In:
- Follow up with a vocab quiz: label different trophies for different Award shows and have the students give the name of the show, and what the shows are awarding.
- Discuss the winners after the students watch the Academy Awards
- For fun, you can also discuss best dressed and worst dressed, etc.