Central Unified School District
Arts Every Day
Grade K Theatre Unit 2
Lesson Title: The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Theme 9, Lesson 3
Integrated Learning Objective: Students will be able to use order words to retell the sequence of a story using tableau and pantomime with 3 points
on a 4-point rubric.
Standard(s)
Resources
Assessment of Student Performance
or Artwork
Materials
Physical Space Requirements and
Grouping(s)
Prior Knowledge
Reading/Language Arts
Common Core State Standard
K RL.2 With prompting and support, retell
familiar stories, including key details.
KRL.3 With prompting and support,
identify characters, settings, and major
events I a story.
CA Content Standards
RC 2.4 Retell familiar stories
LRA 3.3 Identify characters, settings and
important events
HM Kindergarten Theme 9
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Theatre Arts
CE 2.2 Perform group pantomimes and
improvisations to retell familiar stories
Music; Peer Gynt, Suite No 1, In the Hall of the
Mountain King
Students will demonstrate the difference between little, middle-sized, and big in their bodies and
their voices.
Students will be able to use order words to retell the sequence of a story using tableau and
pantomime with 3 points on a 4-point rubric.
Blackline Master 138 - Story Sequence Map; Masks for goats, trolls (optional) Sentence strips with
order words First, Then, Then, At last, Music for moving like trolls, Drawing of
bridge on butcher paper (optional) or use ELMO to project bridge from PB274; Objects or pictures
of examples of little, middle-sized, big
Space to move for narrative pantomimes and acting out the story
Pantomime, tableau, space bubble, Turn and Freeze, Count to five, character, setting, dialogue;
(optional) art materials for masks (paper plates, envelopes or tongue depressors, construction
paper)
Written in collaboration with Fresno County Office of Education and Central Unified School District
For questions contact [email protected]
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Direct Instruction
Materials
Introduce
I Do
Objective
Prior Knowledge
Vocabulary
I Do/We Do
Warm-Up
Teacher
Modeling
Little, Middle-sized, Big
Narrative Pantomime
Objects that are 3 sizes
(Big, middle-sized, small)
Music: Peer Gynt – In the Hall
of the Mountain King
Tableau/ Vocal Expression
Re-tell the story
Drawing of Bridge; Masks
(optional)
BL Master 138 Story Map;
Cards with Order Words
Students will be able to use
order words to retell the
sequence of a story using
tableau and pantomime with 3
points on a 4-point rubric.
Students will be able to
Students will be able to act out Students will act out the
compare the similarities and
the parts of the billy goats in a character of the troll through
differences between the
narrative pantomime.
speech and pantomime.
characters as they listen to the
story The Three Billy Goats
Gruff.
Big, middle-sized, little, troll,
Space Bubble, Pantomime,
Tableau, Freeze, Order words
Tableau
Billy goat
Slow-Motion
(First, Then, At Last)
Big, middle-sized, little, bridge, fresh, troll, Billy goat, lightning, thunder, mean, hooves. Trip, trap
Warm-ups to Engage students
Compare sizes – Demonstrate
with 3 students, 1 in a ball, one
kneeling, one standing with
arms stretched out
Narrative Pantomime –
“Count to 3” (1=small 2=
middle-sized, 3=big – then
count backwards to small
again) Balloon, bubblegum,
seed to tree; kitten-cat-lion.
Read the story – T Thinks
aloud (T118) “How are the
billy goats alike? How are they
different?
Practice Space Bubble;
Review Vocabulary through
pantomime;
Examples:
Trolls come out from under
the bridge
Fresh – Pick and smell fresh
flowers in a green field
Hooves – goats walk on
hooves (making trip trap
sound on the bridge)
Lightning – slow-motion to
lightning fast
Troll makes a mean face
T walks around classroom and
says”, Guess which size billy
goat I am.” Reviews little,
middle-sized, big.
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Narrative Pantomime in Space
Bubbles - Review Little,
Middle-sized, Big
T models tableau through
“Turn and Freeze”
Facial Expressions (happy
face, mean face)
Little billy goat
Middle-sized billy goat
Big billy goat
Mean-faced troll
Review Tableau through Turn
and Freeze
FIRST – came the Little billy
goat (tableau)
THEN – came the Middle-sized
billy goat (tableau)
THEN – came the Big billy goat
(tableau)
AT LAST – the Troll fell in the
water (tableau)
(optional) Partners –Tableau
of fight between Big Billy Goat
and Troll
T models the sequence of the
story with the story map (BL
Master 138)
Direct Instruction
PRACTICE
We Do
APPLY
You Do
Guided Practice
Little, Middle-sized, Big
Narrative Pantomime
Sound and Motion Activity;
Walk in place like the billy
goats (or “walk” with hands
tapping on knees)
Little: trip trap
Middle sized: Trip Trap
Big: TRIP TRAP
S walk around classroom in
NP as little billy goats, middlesized billy goats, and big billy
goats. Goats eat fresh grass,
Independent
Practice
PB p.273
Math Center - sort sizes – little,
middle-sized, big (T119)
Assess
TPR – little, middle-sized, big –
T holds up objects or pictures
and S respond
Close
Differentiation/
Extensions
Connections to
other subjects
Tableau/ Vocal Expression
S do Turn and Freeze Tableau
activity (whole class in unison)–
• Facial Expressions
(happy face, mean
T reads story, students act it
face)
out the parts of the billy goats.
• Little billy goat
Class may be divided into
• Middle-sized billy
thirds – 1/3 as little, 1/3 as
goat
middle-sized, and 1/3 as big
• Big billy goat
billy goat
• Mean-faced troll
S-Say or pantomime Troll lines
T plays music Peer Gynt – S
“Who’s that crossing my
move and pantomime the Troll bridge?”
crawling out from under the
Oh No You’re not! I’m coming
bridge.
to eat you up!”
• Troll Yells (little)
• Troll Roars (middlesized)
• Troll Howls (big)
PB 274 or Art Center – make
Mirror Activity – take turns
billy goat or troll masks
making mean troll faces and
mirroring them
Art Center – make billy goat or
troll masks
Students are able to focus and
stay in character as T reads
the story.
Revisit objective
S follow simple Handout:
Checklist for Tableau
Leader in role
Teacher in Role as troll- Talks to goats and asks, “Why should I let you cross my bridge?”
Page T122
Act out Willy Worm as narrative pantomime
Yetta Yo-Yo as pantomime game
Math Center; Science Center - Classification
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Re-tell the story
S act out the story of the Three
Billy Goats Gruff as a Narrative
Pantomime (Whole
class/Unison)
T casts parts of three billy
goats and the Troll (maybe
individual, maybe small
groups for each character)
S act out the Narrative
Pantomime for the rest of the
class; recast and replay as time
allows
Story Map and masks available
in Center for students to act
out independently
Handout: Final Project
Rubric for Narrative
Pantomime
K-6
Theatre Vocabulary
Character: The personality or part an actor re-creates.
Dialogue: The conversation between actors on stage, in film, and in television or videos.
Downstage: The stage area toward the audience.
Gesture: The movement of a body part or combination of parts, with emphasis on the expressive aspects
of the movement.
Improvisation: A spontaneous style in which scenes are created without advance rehearsing or
scripting.
Narrative Pantomime: utilizes a storyteller or narrator as one or others act out the action of the
narrative.
Pantomime: Acting without words through facial expression, gesture, and movement.
Puppetry: Almost anything brought to life by human hands to create a performance. Types of puppets
include rod, hand, and marionette.
Reader’s Theatre: A performance crated by actors reading a script rather than working from memory.
Scene: The setting of the action of a play, story, etc.; a division of a play, usually part of an act.
Script: The written text of a play.
Setting: The locale of the action of the play.
Stage Left and Right: The left and right side of the stage from the perspective of an actor facing the
audience.
Tableau: A silent, motionless depiction of a scene created by actors, often from a picture.
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Three Billy Goats Gruff
Final Project Rubric
1
Students do not
use the order
words. Story is
out of sequence.
2
Students use
one or two of
the order words
with much
prompting.
Sequence is
mostly correct.
Students do not Students show
show any
limited
differences in
character
the characters
differences
between the 3
sizes of billy
goats and the
troll with a lot of
prompting
Students to not
Students mostly
follow the story follow the story
or perform
with
group
appropriate
pantomimes and actions with a
improvisations. lot of
encouragement
and sidecoaching.
3
Students use
one or two of
the order
words with
some
prompting.
Students show
some character
differences
between the 3
sizes of billy
goats and the
troll with some
prompting
Students
mostly follow
the story with
appropriate
actions with
some
encouragement
and sidecoaching.
4
Standard
Students use the RC 2.4 Retell
Order words
familiar stories
First, Then, At
Last and retell
the story in
proper sequence.
Students show
clear character
differences
between the 3
sizes of billy
goats and the
troll when acting
out the story
Students follow
the story with
appropriate
actions when
performing
group
pantomimes and
improvisations.
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LRA 3.3 Identify
characters,
settings and
important events
CE 2.2 Perform
group
pantomimes and
improvisations
to retell familiar
stories
Quick Tableau Checklist
Different Levels – High, Medium, Low
Emotions shown through body language and facial
expressions
Actors stay in still or frozen position
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