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The Drama Teachers Resource Room
You'll find lesson plans, links, and other resources. There is also a bulletin board where you can talk with other drama teachers.
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Drama Education
You'll find lesson plans and activities, links, a weekly newsletter, and other resources from Kim Flintoff, drama teacher at John Forrest HS in Embleton, Australia.
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Children's Theatre/Creative Drama
This site from Matt Buchanan, drama teacher at the Montgomery Academy in Alabama includes lesson plans, classroom rules, a drama curriculum, monologues and plays for young actors, and a artist-centered evaluation system.
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National Standards for Theatre Education
This site from BYU includes the national standards for theatre education, a collection of 20 units of study covering acting and technical theatre, improvisational situations, and theatre games.
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American Musical Theatre
You will find a collection of seven units of study exploring musical theatre at this site from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. Units include: American Musical Theater: Making it Work in the Music Classroom; The Pygmalion Effect: A Dramatic Study in the Classroom; and Stepping Into The World of the American Musical Theatre: Dance Sets The Pace.
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Twentieth-Century Multicultural Theater
This site from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute contains ten units of study focusing on multicultural theatre. Units include: Learning and Living through Mythology; Multi-Cultural Theater in Music; and Remember the Time: An Exploration of History Through Drama.
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Drama
This site from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute contains eight units of study exploring drama and acting. Units include: Marlowe and Faustus: Visceral Magicians of the Theater; Images of Black Women in Drama; Script Writing as a Means to Effective Writing; and Character Analysis: The Search for Self.
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Drama
Another site from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute containing eight units of study exploring drama and acting. Units include: A Hands-On Approach to Teaching Hamlet; The Teacher Directs: The Experience of Movement in Literature; and Four Contemporary Mexican and Chicano Plays—An Analysis.
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Film and Literature
This site from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute containing 11 units of study exploring film and literature. Units include: Women in Film: What are they Telling Us?; Using Film and Literature in the Elementary Classroom: The Jungle Book; Literary, Theatrical and Cinematic Approaches to Drama; and Teaching Acting Technique and Building a Character Through Cinema.
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Race and Representation in American Cinema
This site from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute contains 14 units of study exploring race and cinema including: Recognizing Stereotypical Images of African Americans in Television and Movies; The Eye Behind the Camera; the Voice Behind the Story; Representation in Art and Film: Identity and Stereotype; and Black Actors in American Cinema.
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Contemporary American Drama: Scripts and Performance
This site from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute contains 11 units of study exploring scripts and acting. Units include: Improvisational Drama Without Words; The Preparation of a Play to be Performed before a School Audience; and Drama: A Family Connection.
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K-6 Drama/Theatre Lessons
This site from the California State university, Chico contains five lesson plans for K-6 drama.
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Curricula, Lessons, and Activities: Performing Arts
This site from ArtsEdge contains a large collection of performing arts lesson plans for grades K-12.
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Theatre Lesson Plan Exchange
This site from Shalynn Reynolds, Director of the Off the Cuff Improvisation Company, includes some great lesson plans, improvs, warm-up activities, and games.
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Drama in Education
This site from Kenneth Taylor, Principal Lecturer in Drama at Middlesex University in England, contains a large collection of teacher developed lesson plans for middle and high school students.
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The Improv Encyclopedia
You will find 361 improv games as well as improv references, terms, and basic concepts.
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Creative Drama and Theatre Education Resource Site
This site has theatre games, classroom ideas, and other resources for the drama teacher.
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Improv Games for Rehearsal and Performance
You'll find over 70 improv ideas and games at this site from Instant Monologues to 60 Second Scenes.
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Drama
This site from CanTeach has seven lesson plans for elementary school.
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Learn Improv
You will find improv warm-ups, exercises, and advice at this site.
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