Lesson Plan- Lesson # 6-7 / Total in Unit Duration of Class: 45 Minutes

Class: Drama 8 Unit: Tableau (Finishing) Improv

Date: Sept 19-22
Task: Finish Tableau, Short Form Improv
Learner Outcomes Plan for Diversity

To develop competency in communication Ensure games are

skills through participation in and exploration explained so
everyone
of various dramatic disciplines.
understands and
adjust based on
To acquire knowledge of self and others student comfort
through participation in and reflection on and ability levels.
dramatic experience. Ensure tableau
and improv
activities are
approachable for
all students.

Prerequisite Knowledge, Skills, Strategies and Attitudes Preliminary

Matters/Materials
Drama is a constant free flowing subject and students can learn new things in Needed(MN):
drama regardless of previous knowledge they just need to be willing to
participate and try. Rubric
Openness

Time Teaching Strategy Student Activity Resources/ Materials Needed

Introduction At the start of the first-class Students will get in

students will be given an
explanation of what improv
is and what its purpose is in
the course. Additionally,
activities and games will be
explained as the lessons
progress.
alphabetical order in a circle
with instructors every day to
establish classroom routine.
Question of the day
Stretching

Activity Students will complete their
Sequence tableau unit through their
performances on their first
given day of the week (sept
19-20).
Students will spend their first
class of the week performing
their tableau scenes and be
given feedback before
moving onto improv (sept
19-20).
Students will be introduced
to the essential rules of
improv (always say yes, say
yes and which means
adding to the offer given to
you, make statements
instead of constant
questions, and there are no
mistakes when engaging in
improv). (Sept 19-20).
Students will finish the first
class of the week by playing
intro improv games such as
what are you doing? (one
person acts out an action
such as chopping a tree and
then someone will ask them
what the and they will say
something completely
different and that person will
take on that action), space
jump (students get into a line
and do scenes in groups of
five, the first person starts a
scene on their own, then a
new scene with two, then
three, then four, and then
five, and then each person
who started that scene will
find a reason to leave and
we return to the prior scene
until it’s all over), and time
permitted rock, paper,
scissors championship
(students will play rock,
paper, scissors where the
loser becomes the winners
cheerleader until we have
two people left and large
groups of adoring fans) (sept
19-20).
Students will engage in short
form improv games which
includes, party quirks (small
parties where the audience
gives the party goers
different quirks the host
must guess on), ding
(students create scenes that
the teacher can eventually
ding on to have them make
new choices), three things
(three students become
objects or things in the circle
and they need to make them
relate in some way before
the first person keeps one of
the other two in the scene),
 etc. (sept 21-22).

Closure Ensuring that students Students will be asked if

understand what they have they need any further
learned and what will be clarification before next
expected from them moving class and time allowing be
forward. given a broken down of
what’s happening in the
following class.