Middle School Drama Class
2001-2002

Course Description:

During this semester-length course, students will explore creative drama with a focus on speech strategies and dramatic movement. Students will take part in improvisation and performance of monologues and dramatic scenes.

Sarah and Danielle get read for an improv scene

Chris and Jake learn their lines for their dramatic scene

Students will:

• Read with developing fluency a variety of texts, such as . . . plays. (ELA.I.MS.1)
• Recognize and use authors’ techniques that convey meaning and build empathy with readers when composing their own texts. (ELA.II.MS.2)
• Integrate listening, viewing, speaking, reading, and writing skills for multiple purposes and in varied contexts. (ELA.III.MS.1)
• Read and write fluently, speak confidently, listen and interact appropriately, view critically, and represent creatively. (ELA.III.MS.3)

• Practice verbal and nonverbal strategies that enhance understanding of spoken messages promote effective listening behaviors. (ELA.III.MS.4)
• Recognize and use levels of discourse appropriate for varied contexts, purposes, and audiences, including terminology specific to a particular field. (ELA.IV.MS.5)
• Identify and discuss how the tensions among characters, communities, themes, and issues in literature and other texts are related to one’s own experience. (ELA.V.MS.3)
• Demonstrate their ability to use different voices in oral and written communication to persuade, inform, entertain, and inspire their audiences. (ELA.VI.MS. 2)
• Refine their own standards to evaluate personal and public communications within a responsible and ethical system for the expression of ideas. (ELA.XII.MS.5)
• Sarah and Danielle get read for an improv scene
• Chris and Jake learn their lines for their dramatic scene