Lesson Plan for Second Visit

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October 16, 2018
Elise Joyner
Alyssa Adair’s 1st Grade Class
Blackridge Elementary School


Name of the Game: Numbered Levels
Grade: 1st Grade
Purpose of the game: Get wiggles out, allows students to be comfortable creating levels with their bodies and moving around for future drama activities and lessons; provides a familiar game that we have already done to help students remember what we had done before they went on the break
Procedure:
  • Each number is a level (1 on the ground to 5 is a jump or reach, the other numbers are in between)
  • Each level is where the individual student is comfortable
  • Start by establishing the levels and going back and forth 1-5 to practice what each level is
  • One person calls out numbers
  • Everyone goes to the called level and repeats the number
  • Have different students choose a number and repeat the process
Possible time: 7 minutes

If time:
Name of activity: Emotion/Character Circle
Grade: 1st Grade
Purpose of the activity: Embody characters of a story to see how they might feel or what they may look like; prepare them to act in 5-finger retell acting
Procedure:
  • Everyone stands in a circle. There is a teacher or facilitator in the middle.
  • Everyone in the circle turns so that they are facing the outside of the circle.
  • The facilitator will say an emotion or a situation that the people in the circle will embody with their faces, posture, and breath. The people in the circle will have a moment to think of how they will react.
    • Possible emotions or connections to 5-finger retell: happy, sad, angry, excited, playing on a beach, going to school, playing at home, eating, etc.
    • To connect with next activity, think of situations that involve character, problems, solutions, settings, or a point of a plot
  • On the count of three (said by the facilitator), everyone in the circle will turn around to face the inside of the circle and do their embodiment. They will freeze in this position.
  • The people in the circle (still in their frozen position) can look around the circle to observe how others perceive the same situation in a different way.
Possible time: 5-10 minutes

Name of Activity: 5-Finger Retell Acting
Grade: 1st Grade
Purpose of the activity: Practice picking apart the five parts of a story. Answer the following questions through dramatic activity: What is the problem in the story? What is the solution? Who are the characters? What is the setting? What is the basic plot?
Core Objective: Students will communicate their understanding of one of the 5 elements of a story through identifying and presenting their assigned element to the class. The class will then explain how the presentation was the specific element.
Acting Objective: Students will begin to use their bodies to tell a part of a story. This will be done through the presentation of a scene or a tableau.
UEN Common Core Standard: ELANG Grade 1, Speaking and Listening Standard 2: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
Fine Arts, Standard 1.T.P.1: Identify the character, setting, and essential events (plot) in a story that make up the dramatic structure, and use choices to shape believable and sustainable dramatic work.
Fine Arts, Standard 1.T.R.1: Demonstrate audience skills of observing attentively and responding appropriately.
Needed materials: 5-Minute Pete the Cat Stories by James Dean- “Sir Pete the Brave”, pg. 37
Preparation needed beforehand: Teacher goes over 5-finger retell so that students are reminded of what each is and what each means.
Procedure:
  • Explain the concept of acting. Relate it to how children pretend when they play so that they have a frame of reference. Demonstrate what acting can look like by acting out simple actions such as brushing teeth, throwing a ball, or reading a book. When modeling acting, include demonstrating the concept of being a character, being something living or nonliving, or being in a specific location such as a park.
  • Group the students into 5 groups and assign each group one the 5 parts of a story: problem, solution, characters, setting, plot
  • Instruct the groups to pay attention and listen for their specific part while we read the story
  • Read “Sir Pete the Brave” to the class
  • Give the groups time to figure out what their specific part of the 5-finger retell for this story is and how to act it out
    • Teacher roams to make sure that each group understands their assigned part and knows how to act it out
    • Acting out the element is up to the students and how they would like to present. They can create a short scene or a tableau to communicate their element.
  • Have each group present what they came up with to the rest of the class
    • Before the groups present, go over proper audience behavior of sitting still and respectfully listening. Also, go over how to properly respond after a group is finished (how to clap respectfully, etc.). This is for classroom management purposes. Proper audience etiquette can be stressed further in another lesson. This particular class already knows how to sit quietly on the carpet, so tell them that audience time follows the same procedure.
    • Before groups present, clearly state how/when to start their scene. This will be done by the teacher counting to the count of 3 and having the group start on 3. Also review how to end a scene. Clearly state that when a scene is over, a designated member of the group will look at the teacher and say “done,” at which point, the teacher takes over to help the next group get ready for their scene.
  • Pull together as a class to go over the five parts one more time
Assessment: As each group prepares their element, the teacher will informally observe whether or not students can easily identify the element. After each group presents, the teacher will ask the class which element the performing group did to see if they as a whole are able to identify the element.
Possible time: 15- 20 minutes

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