DRAMA

I love teaching drama!  Students get very creative, learn to open up, and sometimes we just get plain SILLY!!! 

Monologues:  A speech or talk given by one person

To start off our year exploring drama, students will create a Halloween Monologue and pretend to be the character of their Halloween costume.  To show students some examples of monologues, some videos are provided below.

To help with building character, I created a Level 4 sample based on the character Maleficent.  Here is the scary video I showed below to inspire the children:

One of the plays that we might perform is called "The Magic Pasta Pot".  This play is based on the book entitled "Strega Nona" by Tomie de Paola.  We will link this to our Language Curriculum and compare and contrast the book to the play!

This video will help us explain the conventions and techniques of a media text.....a SCRIPT!  
NOTE--This video does not explain the Elements of Drama, as they are stated in the Ontario Curriculum.

It WILL help my class design their own scripts in a group!

Children will also be learning to stay in role (character) in Grade 3.  We practice the art of TABLEAUX.  Below is a video I show them to help them think about feelings they would like to convey during their tableaux.