Ohioana Authors Curriculum
Links to Drama Lessons
The Play's the Thing: A Lesson for the Drama Classroom
Source: New York Time Company - The Learning Network
In this lesson students work in small groups to detail a new 'director's vision' for the staging, sound, costumes, and casting of a play they are currently studying.
Dramatic Storytelling in the English Classroom
Source: The Australian Government Department of Education, Training, and Youth Affairs ~ Dianne Pizarro and Ruth Buchanan
The purpose of this web site is to give secondary English teachers practical approaches to using drama in the classroom through readers theatre and role play. After giving a rationale for this, and providing essential preliminary drama games and warm-up exercises, four approaches are outlined, with all the information you need to use these in your classroom.
Prize-Winning Prose: Developing "Kids' Pulitzers"
Source: New York Time Company - The Learning Network
Students develop criteria for 'Kids’ Pulitzers,' awards in categories of writing determined by the students. Each student will then bestow a 'Kids’ Pulitzer' upon a piece of writing which they deem to be distinguished based on the established criteria.
Reading Response Journals: Writing After Reading is Revealing! (article)
Source: Education World
Tips to help teachers establish effective journal writing experiences.
Author Study Unit
Source: Saskatchewan Education
During an author study, students can examine the writer's craft in depth, and identify and categorize a variety of elements of style (e.g., imagery, metaphor, hyperbole, connotation, alliteration, understatement), providing that the study of elements does not detract from the enjoyment of the reading.
