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This unit covers modern drama. Modern drama includes creative drama, formal drama, improvision drama, and acting methods such as side coaching and replaying. This unit also includes action games. For example, Reflections, Dr. What?, Story Bag, and Dictionary Mania. The modern drama unit ends with an opinion session.

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Content Objectives

1. The student will explain the difference between formal, creative, and improvision drama.

2. The student will write their opinion of the different activities.

Language Objectives

1. The student will demonstrate different acting methods such as side coaching and replaying.

2. The student will practice creative, formal, and improvision drama.

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Many of your early theatre experiences involved using your imagination and creativity to act out stories, poems, or original ideas. This informal process of acting is called creative drama. Creative drama is an improvisational form of theatre in which participants are guided by a leader to imagine, enact, and reflect on human experiences. Creative drama differs from formal drama in that the process of acting out is more important than the end result. That is, how the participants develop the activity is more important than the final product of the activity. Formal drama focuses on a performance in front of an audience as the important final product. Another important difference between formal drama and creative drama is that even though a literary selection might be used as the basis for a creative drama activity, there is no script (manuscript written in dialogue form for acting). The acting would be improvisational — imaginative and spontaneous. Improvisation is key to creative drama. And since the process is not a performance, creative drama does not require an audience.

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Do you remember when you were in elementary school and your teacher read to the class, perhaps from the wonderful book Where The Wild Things Are? After the reading, if your teacher had the class act out the story, then you and your classmates were sharing a creative drama experience. Even today, when the students in your science class actively become the parts of a tree, solar system, or immune system, those are creative drama experiences. In creative drama, you hear a story or get an idea and then plan how to act out the dramatic action. Following careful planning, the scene is then played, either in parts or from beginning to end.

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An important part of creative drama is the evaluation that comes after playing out a story or idea. When the acting out is over, all participants evaluate the activity. The leader guides the discussion to focus on what worked well during the playing process. Next, the discussion covers the changes that could make the activity more successful or the story more believable if it were replayed. Replaying is acting out the story or activity again using the changes discussed. It enables participants to expand on their ideas. Replaying can occur immediately or it can be saved for another time. Leaders in creative drama activities often use a technique called side-coaching. In side-coaching, the leader (often your teacher) talks you through an activity by making suggestions or giving you ideas. Side-coaching may also provide an internal monologue

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Section 2

Average Syllables per 100 Words: 148
Average Sentences per 100 Words: 5

9th grade level passage

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Imagination

literary

manuscript

spontaneous

evaluation

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Before the student reads the material, they fill in the anticipation guide. After they read the material, they reflect on the anticipation guide to see what they got correct and what they learned.

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Bloom’s Questions

Applying- How would you demonstrate creative drama?

Analyzing- How can you classify modern drama according to the text book?

Evaluating- What is your opinion of the game, Reflections?

Creating- How would you portray formal drama?

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An important part of creative _____ is the evaluation that comes after playing out a story or idea. When the acting out is over, all participants evaluate the _______. The leader guides the discussion to focus on what worked well during the ________ process. Next, the discussion covers the changes that could make the activity more successful or the story more believable if it were ________. Replaying is acting out the _____ or activity again using the changes discussed. It enables participants to expand on their ideas. Replaying can occur __________ or it can be saved for another time. Leaders in creative drama activities often use a technique called side-coaching. In _____________, the leader (often your teacher) talks you through an activity by making suggestions or giving you ideas. Side-coaching may also provide an internal monologue.

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Cloze is a series of sentences that have words removed, and the student must use their context clues to figure out the words.

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After experiencing modern drama, the student will appreciate art and the story that is told through action and dialogue