Lesson+Plans

= Lindsay M. Shields = = Lesson Plans (a sample) =

Japanese Drama [[image:bunraku.jpg width="109" height="150" align="right"]]
Synopsis: A unit on Japanese Drama, including its history and the construction of bunraku style puppets.

Dramatic Activities Used: script reading and interpretation, script writing, puppet building, staging, and voice manipulation/projection

Downloadable PDF Unit Plan

Fraction Warm-Up[[image:fraction.gif width="208" height="148" align="right"]]
Synopsis: A math warm-up using fractions. Students practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions in pairs.

Dramatic Activities Used: Using space, moving in a space, moving a different paces, partnering

Downloadable PDF lesson plan

House of Tailors: A Lesson on Immigration[[image:house_of_tailors.gif align="right"]]
Synopsis: This lesson allows students to share their knowledge of a read-aloud book. It also helps students think about what ISN'T written in the book, but is implied. Students use recall as well as their imaginations to explore characters in the story outside of the book.

Dramatic Activities Used: thought tunnel, role on the wall, scene work, memory mapping

Downloadable PDF lesson plan

Natural Movement: Using Drama to Teach Nature[[image:tree.gif width="153" height="143" align="right"]]
Synopsis: This lesson allows students to use all their senses to explore and mimic nature. This activity is especially created for working with special populations in integrated classrooms.

Dramatic Activities Used: share and pass, freeze, observations, character work, sense tapping

Downloadable PDF lesson plan