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 * Middle School Drama Curriculum**

**6th Grade – Introduction to Drama**
 * 1) Confidence building – students will learn to work together in an open and collaborative environment; we will play theater games and create small scenes in order to feel comfortable within the classroom
 * 2) Dramatic Structure – students will learn about the basic dramatic structure of a story or play
 * 3) Basic Tools for the Actor – students will learn to use an actor’s primary tools: voice, body and emotional accessibility
 * 4) Theater Terminology
 * 5) Putting it all together – in groups, students will create a short play utilizing the skills they have crafted over the semester
 * 6) Theater Critique

**7th Grade – Introduction to Scene work**
 * 1) Confidence building – students will learn to work together in an open and collaborative environment; we will play theater games and create small scenes in order to feel comfortable within the classroom
 * 2) Methodology – students will learn about the different methods actors utilize within the rehearsal process
 * 3) Character Work – using their given scenes, students will learn how actors must study their script and create a character
 * 4) Final Scene Presentations – in partners, students will memorize, block and perform their scenes for their classmates
 * 5) Theater Critique

=   7th Grade – Introduction to the Monologue    = 1. Confidence building – students will learn to work together in an open and collaborative environment; we will play theater games and create small scenes in order to feel comfortable within the classroom 2. Methodology – students will learn about the different methods actors utilize within the rehearsal process        3. Studying the monologue – as a class, we will look at written monologues and monologue performances so that students understand what goes into creating and performing a monologue        4. Creating the monologue - students will create original characters and write their own monologues from scratch        5. Final Presentations – students will memorize, block and perform their monologues for their classmates        6. Theater Critique **8th Grade - Playwriting Workshop**
 * 1) Confidence building – students will learn to work together in an open and collaborative environment; we will play theater games and create small scenes in order to feel comfortable within the classroom
 * 2) Working with prompts –given a variety of prompts students will be asked to create short scenes, tableaus, monologues and movement pieces (examples of prompts: poems, songs, photos)
 * 3) Discussion/Analysis – as a class, we will discuss the themes and concepts we would like to study and analyze in order to create our play
 * 4) Rehearsal and Performance
 * 5) Theater Critique

=**8th Grade - Drama through Time**=

1. Confidence building – students will learn to work together in an open and collaborative environment; we will play theater games and create small scenes in order to feel comfortable within the classroom 2. Drama through time - we will touch briefly on a number of different genres and errors of theater (musical theater, theater for young audiences, improvisation, sketch comedy, Greek Drama, Melodrama, Shakespeare). There will final presentations for each unit. 3. Theater Critique

Every drama student must watch one live performance and fill out one theater critique (please see Mrs. Fine or Mrs. Sullivan if this is not possible, although there are a number of in-school and after school opportunities). They will either fill out a sheet if they watch a show or another sheet if they participate in a show (on or off stage).

Bellow are the links to both sheets:

This is the sheet you would fill out if you WATCHED a live performance.

This is the sheet you would fill out if you were IN a live performance.