7th Grade Drama
Schedule
Seventh grade drama meets in the auditorium during period two every day for nine weeks. Each class is forty minutes. Drama, art, music, and media arts classes are the fine arts classes offered to seventh graders and each course meets for a nine week rotation.
Rotation #1 – August 25 – October 29
Rotation #2 – November 1 – January 21
Rotation #3 – January 24 – April 1
Rotation #4 – April 4 – June 6
Course Description
During the first few class sessions, the class plays advanced theatre games to become reacquainted with each other and revisit using drama positions, the theatre space and theatre/drama vocabulary.
There are three units in 7th grade drama that include radio plays, a story dramatization of “All Summers In a Day”, and a design unit.
Students present their scripted radio plays with their group and incorporate both sound effects and music into the reading. For “All Summer In a Day”, the teacher uses a storytelling approach to tell a scene, model the characters and block the scene on the stage. Students cast themselves in their desired role and work improvisationally to present the scenes. Each student is responsible for remembering the sequence of the scene, blocking and creating dialogue for their character while using pantomime, facial expressions, and body language. There is no rehearsal and a discussion follows each scene.
Finally, students will create a theatrical design project based on a scene from “All Summer in a Day.”
Schedule
Seventh grade drama meets in the auditorium during period two every day for nine weeks. Each class is forty minutes. Drama, art, music, and media arts classes are the fine arts classes offered to seventh graders and each course meets for a nine week rotation.
Rotation #1 – August 25 – October 29
Rotation #2 – November 1 – January 21
Rotation #3 – January 24 – April 1
Rotation #4 – April 4 – June 6
Course Description
During the first few class sessions, the class plays advanced theatre games to become reacquainted with each other and revisit using drama positions, the theatre space and theatre/drama vocabulary.
There are three units in 7th grade drama that include radio plays, a story dramatization of “All Summers In a Day”, and a design unit.
Students present their scripted radio plays with their group and incorporate both sound effects and music into the reading. For “All Summer In a Day”, the teacher uses a storytelling approach to tell a scene, model the characters and block the scene on the stage. Students cast themselves in their desired role and work improvisationally to present the scenes. Each student is responsible for remembering the sequence of the scene, blocking and creating dialogue for their character while using pantomime, facial expressions, and body language. There is no rehearsal and a discussion follows each scene.
Finally, students will create a theatrical design project based on a scene from “All Summer in a Day.”