Drama
Recommended Prerequisites: None
Grades Offered: 6th Grade
Credits: 1
SDE Course Code: 0650
MNPS Course Code: ENG1096Y
Course Description
Schools may choose from either Creative Drama or Performance Drama. Creative Drama offers the students the chance to study stage movement, voice and diction, character development, and script development through the use of creative dramatic techniques.
Performance Drama offers students the chance to study character development and performance techniques. State movement, voice and diction, and character development are studied through the use of scripted works.
Course of Study
o Facial expressions
o Sensory awareness
o Object discovery
o Gesture
o Character development
o Producing a puppet show
o Animation
o Manipulation
o Types of puppets
· Improvisation
o Theatre games
o Warm-ups
o Character driven improvisations
· Storytelling
o Storytelling techniques
o Finding stories to tell
· Readers Theatre
o Fundamentals
o Performance
Standards
The Tennessee State Department of Education Standards for Theatre Arts
http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/standards
Textbook
Jackson, Jeannie, Exploring Theatre,
Chicago, Illinois, NCT/Contemporary, 1997.
Recommended or Required Resources
Variety of plays
Videos of plays
Live performances of plays
Professional actors and theatre technicians