Key Concepts Drama 6-7
Drama Elements
Spontaneity
Characterization
Improvising
Give and Take
Focus
Group Dynamics
Verbal
Communication
Grade 6
Exchange Student/Translator
Give Me That Seat
The Machine Game
One Sentence Story At a Time
Tell Me About The Time You
(TMATTY)
Word Tennis
Pantomime As If…
Walking
Family Portraits
Transformations
Hitchhiker
ABC Improv
Props Freeze
Word Tennis
Grade 7
I’ve Got It, You Want It
In A…With A…While A…
Line At A Time
Gibberish
Make Me Do It
Happy Hands
Slow Motion Commentary
TMATTY
Fractured Fairy Tales
What If…
If I Were A Skunk
Park Bench
Where Game
ABC Improv
First Line, Last Line
Addition and Subtraction
Story in Frozen Pictures
Props Freeze
The Accident
Yearbook Game
Phone Booth
Take Focus
YOU!
Frog and Fly
Hunter and Hunted
Going On a Trip
Line Up By Height
Emotion Party
Where Game
Addition and Subtraction
Conflict Game
Telephone
Blind Walk
Newsies
Impromptu
Yes/No – One Word Scenes
One Minute Monologue
Dubbing
Nonverbal
Communication
Observation
Physical Control
And Blocking
Plot Structure
Storytelling &
Scriptwriting
Integrating
Literacy
Standards
Pantomime
Hunter and Hunted
It’s Not Heavy It’s…
Mirror Game
Pass the Object
Pass the Stick
Change Three Things
Slow –Motion Explosion Tag
Captain, My Captain
Entrances / Exits
Charades
Emotion Freezes
Mirror Game (as a character)
Object Monologue
One Sentence Story At a Time
To the Rescue
Truth or Lie?
TMATTY
I’m A Little Teapot (Object
Monologue)
News Broadcast
Truth or Lie?
TMATTY
Scriptwriting (includes brainstorming,
drafting, editing, and a final copy)
Good Guy, Bad Guy
Flashback
One Word Story At a Time
First Line, Last Line
Whose Line
Radio Suspense Drama
Trapped
Getting There is Half the Fun
The Wacky Family
The Invention Of (Commercial)
Scriptwriting (includes brainstorming,
drafting, editing, and a final copy)
Conveying character, voice, and
attitude/perspective in writing
Conveying character, voice, and
attitude/perspective in writing
Evaluate essential importance and
demonstrate reading comprehension
with provided scripts
Evaluate essential importance and
demonstrate reading comprehension
with provided scripts
Change Three Things
Pass the Object
Slow Motion Commentary
The Accident
Duo Stage Directions
Suspense
Synthesize main ideas of a plot or
script to construct new concepts
Integrating
Mathematics
Standards
Staging Awareness (estimating and
calculating distances on the stage)
Spatial Mapping (creating the scene
layout on a “to scale” blueprint )
Line Recitation (calculating an
average for the amount of time it
takes to say a line based on vocal
rate)
Staging Awareness (estimating and
calculating distances on the stage)
Line Recitation (calculating an average
for the amount of time it takes to say a
line based on vocal rate)