Unit Plan: Improv

Class: Drama School Year: 2022/2023 Teacher: Weems

Grade: 7/8/9

To develop competency in communication

Specific skills through participation in and exploration
Outcomes of various dramatic disciplines.

To acquire knowledge of self and others

through participation in and reflection on
dramatic experience.

-Warm up and Question of the day (stretching).

Major Teaching -Play short form improv games such as drop paper, press conference, four square,
& Learning ding etc.). (Week 3).
Activities -These games help students develop understanding of character, setting,
relationships, conflict, resolution, miming, saying yes in a scene and not shutting
down offers, etc.
- Take knowledge from short form and apply it to long form improv scenes. (Week 4).
-This will have students take the knowledge they’ve learned and apply it in full on
developed scenes.

-Rubrics
Resources -Materials for different games
-props

-Participation
-Improv Work

Assessment &
Evaluation