Grade 10 Year Plan

Grade: 10

Time: Semester-- 5 Classes a week, 1 hour X15 weeks 75 Hours

Special Circumstances/ Notes: This is a beginner drama course that does not assume students have any background in the dramatic
arts. This course does provide a setup for future drama courses.

Approach: Unit

September October November December January

Orientation The actor’s voice Theatre history Holiday Radio plays Monologues
Watch and critique

Tableaux Stage fighting -Write scripts

-Fight scenes based on -Rehearse
Character Creation movie monsters -Present
-Movie monsters
-Research project

Monologues (Have students find

Improv and memorize over the break)
Course: Drama 10
Time: Semester- 15 weeks X 5 classes per week = 75 classes (1 hour per class)
Credits: 5
Special Circumstances:
Approach: Combination (unit and theme)

Unit Time Description Learner Expectations

Beginning (1 week) Include get to know you activities Orientation: All concepts, skills
Name games and attitudes
Warm-up Movement: #1, 2, 3, 6
Expectations Speech: #1, 2, 5,
Safety Acting: # 1
Vocal basic
Movement basics
(Creat vocabulary)

Movement and Tableaux
(1.5 weeks) Teach basic skill in movement including: Movement #: 1-16
Stillness, speed, solo vs group etc. Start with
tableaux to provide foundational knowledge of Speech #: 2, 3
the student’s body in space.
Improv #: 35
Incorporate creative movement as a
juxtaposition to tableaux

Include:
 What it is?
Warm-up importance
Gabrielle Roth 5 rhythms
Freeze games
Music--the effect on theatre

The unit concludes--tell a poem using only

movement

Improv (2.5 weeks) Unplanned Movement: # 5, 7, 9, 11, 14,

Improv activities and fundamental ideas. 17
Blocking, steamrolling, yes lets etc.
Activities such as words from a hat, Improv #: 1-32, 34, 36

Planned scenes: Acting: 3, 5, 6, 7, 13

Give students scenes based off fairytales, that
they will have 2 minutes to plan.

Include:
Scenarios
Movement
Stage vocab
Story info

The unit concludes with: theatre sport

competition

Actors Voice (1 week) Students will learn proper technique and Speech #: 1-14
which elements of the voice are necessary for
communication in theatre.
Include:
 Articulators (tongue twisters)
Projection
Parts of body responsible for voice

-See if a outside professional can lead a

class.
-Cowtown opera?

Character creation (1 week) Learn basic make-up, costuming and how

tech symbolizes a character.
Students will learn basic actor make-up, as
well as techniques to apply make-up.
The unit will culminate with students providing
a character sketch
Technical theatre/ design #: 1,
5, 6, 8, 9, 10 (Including
costuming and make-up)

*then re-creating an original monster, in which

they will do a monster runway. (Potentially)

Stage fighting (2 weeks) Learn the fundamentals of stage fighting. Movement #: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7,

Including punches, kicks and hair pulling 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 20, 22, 25
Unit will culminate in a partner stage fighting
scene. Speech #: 12

Acting #: 5, 7, 9, 13, 20

Theatre history (2 weeks) Greek, Medieval, Canadian drama Movement #: 10, 19

Students will learn the fundamental aspects of
each type of theatre. (First two weeks would Improv #: 3, 6, 10, 12, 19, 20
be exploration and scenes based upon
characteristics) Speech #: 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13,
14, 16
The unit would conclude with students being
split into groups and making their own scene Theatre studies # 1-2, 5
 that modernizes the characteristics of
historical drama

Holiday Radio Plays (2 weeks) Watch its a wonderful life Speech #: 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
Students make their own radio plays 13, 14, 17, 18

Prop making can be included at this time. Acting #:

May want to have this included in a holiday 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 17,
concert. 18, 21, 24, 25, 26, 28

Include: Theatre studies: # 2, 3

Voice production
Voice elements
Sound elements
Foley sound will also be taught.

Monologues (2 weeks) Students will find and pitch monologues. They
will work on characterization, intentions and
speech in acting. The final performance will be
individual. Students will have time over the
break to memorize monologues.
Improv #: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10,
14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 24, 26, 27,
28, 29, 30, 31, 32
Acting #: 1-13, 17, 18, 20
Character Study (1 week) Students will pick a movie monster and find its Movement: # 7, 9, 22, 25
motivations. Speech #: 7, 11, 14, 18
They will then defend the movie monster. Acting #: 3 29, 30
-Embody monster
-Movement, Speech