1. Grade: 7
Paige Walsh
Time: 75 hours (50 min Lessons)
Drama 3601
Approach: Thematic
John Poulson
Students are new to drama, so I have focused the year on the level I SLO’s
Duration
Themes
Description/ forms
Learner
Expectations
September Orientation
Warm up games, students get
Orientation- #1-26
weeks 1-3
comfortable with one another,
Movement- #1-6
build positive learning
environment
September/ Musical
Creative movement,
Movement- #7-19
October
Theatre
choreographed dance,
Speech- #1-8
weeks 4-8
improvised dance, choral
Improv/Actingspeech, as well as theatre study #1-4, 11,12
elements
October/
Remembrance Shadow piece focusing on
Movement- #12,
November
Day
movement, and tableaus that
14, 16, 17
weeks 9-11 Performances will be presented during the
Theatre StudiesRemembrance Day Assembly
#1-3
(Grade 8s and 9s will be
involved with the technical
aspects for this presentation)
12-17
Children’s
Students will perform a holiday Movement- #9, 12Theatre
play as a Theatre for Young
14
and
Audiences assignment
Speech- #4
Performance
Improv/Acting#5-10
Technical Theatre#1-11
15-17
Technical
Over these 3 weeks students
Technical TheatreTheatre
will get a brief overview about
#6-11
each technical theatre aspect.
They will then get to choose
one branch of the technical side
and do a research project with
their findings
18-20
Final Project
Students have the opportunity
Technical Theatreto create their own 30 min
#12-16
piece, that must include all
technical aspects. This will be
done in groups of 3-4