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 # 7
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, Style
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 fine tune improvisation abilities through game and
discussion
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
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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: ​
What is it about IMPROV? Why do you think people like it so much? What do you
think could make it better for you?
Bridge/
Transition
Yesterday...
● We examined style. Which was your favorite style to play with?
Today...
● Ask for 4 volunteers. Have them stand at the front of the class. Ask the class for an example of something that is the World’s Worst (i.e. “World’s Worst Blind Date”). Explain to the volunteers that they need to come up with a short sentence and character that fits the description of the World’s Worst ​
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Continue asking for suggestions from the class and eventually ask for more volunteers.
Content
Step 1: Ask the students to list the games they’ve played throughout the unit. The list should include: “What are you doing?”, House Party, Pull the Line, Freeze Tag, Worlds Worst, Mafia and Scene Style. Explain that the final for the unit is participating in an improv show in front of each other and invited individuals. Write the title of each game on the board. Explain that the time limit does not allow everyone to participate in every game. Ask for 4­6 volunteers to participate in each game. If necessary, ask specific students to play in games you know they do well in. If you wish, ask students if they’d like to do lights or sound for the show as well. They are allowed to come up with music between games and do lighting. Step 2: Play each game. Give every student an opportunity to play their game at least once and if time allows, let other students play the game as well. Practicing will help get them ready for their show. Step 3: Make sure students understand that their participation is their grade for this unit. Closure
Today...
● What did we do today? What were we examing?
● Movement/Pantomime/ Character Choice/ Playing off of other’s ideas/Syle
Relevance: 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
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We are going to start prepping for our improv show!!! Come ready to play!
TOmorrow is our big performance day!
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?