Francis C. Hammond Middle School
Meagan Ragland, MAT
Daily Lesson Plan Template
(Formatted for Google Docs) Teacher Name: Ms. M. Ragland
School/Mentor: Hammond Middle School
Content Area: Theater
Grade/Level: 6
Unit/Theme: Improvisation
Lesson # 6
Date:
Prior Planning
Lesson Context/ Setup
What skills and knowledge do you expect students to already have in place before you start the lesson?
What do you need to prepare for the lesson?
Declarative
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The Rules of IMPROV
Setting, Relationship, Movement, Character, Choice, Playing off of Others
Knowledge of Expectations and Guidelines
Safe Space
Procedural
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Journal Entries
Materials
n/a
Setup/ Tech
n/a
Aligning objectives, Assessments, Activities, and Procedures
What will students know and be able to do as a result of this lesson? How will you know they have met the
expectations?
Curriculum
Standards
6.1: The student will build trust cooperation, confidence, concentration, and
listening skills through theatre exercises and team-building activities.
6.2: The student will describe the use of concentration, discipline, and imagination
necessary for theatrical performance.
6.4: The student will improvise responses to creative prompts.
6.22: The student will make connections between personal experience and
dramatizations
6.23: The student will describe how theater is a representation of life.
6.17: The student will define comedy and tragedy and differentiate between them.
Lesson objective
The future improv artists will be able to generate styles in order to develop short
performances.
Assessment
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Special Needs
Student
Accommodations
n/a
Technology
n/a
journal entry
performance
participation
Francis C. Hammond Middle School
Meagan Ragland, MAT
Daily Lesson Plan Template
(Formatted for Google Docs) Integration
The Lesson Plan
Instructional flow/Content exploration and Practice
How will you facilitate the lesson? What will the students do during the lesson to meet the objectives?
Warm- Up
QOD: ​
Define the word “STYLE”. What do you think it will mean to us and IMPROV?
Bridge/
Transition
Yesterday...
● What did we do yesterday? Freeze, Playing off others ideas
Today...
● Ask the students to get back into their original lines of 1s and 2s. Give the sheets with the conversations on them to the first two in line. As the partners come to perform the scene, have the first perform the scene as it is read. Have them switch lines. The next partnership from the lines chooses one style from the bag. They then must perform the scene in that style, for example, Soap Opera. Have each pair perform the scene in that style.
Content
Step 1: Ask the students how the style or the way they were told to perform the scene changed the way it was done. Why was the style so important? Step 2: Ask for 4 volunteers. These students are going to perform a scene for the class. Ask for a suggestion of setting from the class. Give these students 3­5 minutes to plan out what they’re going to perform. Let them perform the scene. Step 3: Now change the style. Have them do it in styles such as musical theatre, mortal combat, drama, romance, soap opera, comedy, western and Japanese martial arts. Step 4: Have all students get the chance to perform their scenes. Closure
Today...
● What did we do today? What were we examing?
● Movement/Pantomime/ Character Choice/ Playing off of other’s ideas/Syle
Relevance:
● We have now looked at setting, relationship, movement, character,
playing off of others, style. We are starting to build our list of
“Must-haves” for good improv. Make sure to keep note of the games we
are playing. They will be returning in the near future. Talk about the final for the unit. It is an improv show. They will be graded on participation and not by how well they performed.
Tomorrow...
Francis C. Hammond Middle School
Meagan Ragland, MAT
Daily Lesson Plan Template
(Formatted for Google Docs) ●
We are going to start prepping for our improv show!!! Come ready to play!
Justification and Reflection
Justification: ​
Why was this the best method to use to meet the learning objectives for the day?
Reflection: ​
What would you have done differently? What were my lessons in terms of procedural and
behavior management? What were the best, most effective parts of the lesson?