Applicable Unit Essential Questions

How can you use basic acting skills to portray characters in scripted scenes?   How can you create a character thru scripted character work in an ensemble dramatization?   How can students learn about the first Thanksgiving by acting in a group ensemble?

SC Academic Standards

II. ACTING. Acting by developing basic acting skills to portray characters that interact in improvised and scripted scenes.

Lesson Segment	Instructional Strategies	Teacher Activities	Student Tasks
	Discussion Movement Connecting Prior Knowledge Cooperative Learning Role Playing Games	Identify the articulators (lips, tongue, teeth). Use tongue twisters and articulation exercise as a daily class warm-up. Discuss the importance of effectively using your senses, mind, body, and voice. Analyze correct breathing and speaking techniques. Compare and contrast projecting versus yelling. The teacher will lead a discussion on the first Thanksgiving. Students will join in the discussion. Then the teacher will pass out the Thanksgiving scripts and assign each student a part in the play.	Students will participate in tongue twister and articulation exercises.   Students will identify articulators.   Students will read the script. Then students will create and justify characters. Students will get in groups and role play their assigned part.

Materials and Resources

On Stage Theater Games and Activities for Kids by Lisa Bany-Winters Page 12 Tongue Twisters The Theatre Machine by Albert T. Viola and Mona Lynn Goone Page 67 Take a Deep Breath Page 68 Inhale, Exhale Free Playscripts for Kids http://www.kidsinco.com/complete-list-of-playscripts/ The First Thanksgiving Feast Thanksgiving Day