Drama: Exploring Emotions & Character

Learning Area(s) Drama Mini Unit Year(s) 1,2

Description

The Arts - Drama : Year 1

In Years 3 and 4, learning in Drama builds on the experience of the previous band. It
involves students making and responding to drama independently and collaboratively
with their classmates and teachers.

The Arts - Drama : Year 2

In Foundation to Year 2, students explore drama. They learn about how drama can
represent the world and that they can make drama to represent their ideas about the
world. They share their drama with peers and experience drama as audiences.

Unit Focus

This unit allows students to explore different emotions and how they impact
people. Students will improve personal and social competence while working
with others and by themselves for different improvisational tasks. Students will
explore narrative perspectives of fairy-tale characters and how they can put
themselves in someone else's shoes.

Stage 1: Desired Results

Transfer of knowledge

How to understand and manage their own feelings along with the feelings of
others

How to cooperate with other people and work as part of a team

Understandings Key Inquiry Questions

Drama can be used to represent How can I use my voice and facial
both the world and peoples ideas expressions to show an emotion or
about the world character?

We can role play different situations What is improvisation?

and characters in drama
How can I use body movements in
We use facial expressions, tone, drama?
body movement and other
techniques

Knowledge Skills

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 How to use facial expressions, voice,
movement and space in drama
situations
How to identify different emotions
and feelings of others and self
How to use creativity to join in on
improvisation games
Describe what is happening in a
scene
Identify emotions and how they are
used in drama
Make and present drama in
dramatic play and improvisation

Curriculum Goals

Curriculum
The Arts - Drama : Year 1 : ACADRM027 Explore role and dramatic action in dramatic play,
improvisation and process drama
The Arts - Drama : Year 1 : ACADRM028 Use voice, facial expression, movement and
space to imagine and establish role and situation
The Arts - Drama : Year 1 : ACADRM029 Present drama that communicates ideas,
including stories from their community, to an audience
The Arts - Drama : Year 2 : ACADRM027 Explore role and dramatic action in dramatic play,
improvisation and process drama
The Arts - Drama : Year 2 : ACADRM028 Use voice, facial expression, movement and
space to imagine and establish role and situation
The Arts - Drama : Year 2 : ACADRM029 Present drama that communicates ideas,
including stories from their community, to an audience

Other Goals
ACARA AC Achievement Standards

ACSA-DRA1-1 Students describe what happens in drama they make, perform and view.
ACSA-DRA2-2 Students discuss how they and others organise the elements of drama in
their drama.
ACSA-DRA1-3 Students make and present drama using the elements of role, situation and
focus in dramatic play and improvisation.
ACSA-DRA2-3 Students use relationships, tension, time and place and narrative structure
when improvising and performing devised and scripted drama.

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

Task Task description Criteria

Ongoin Drama games/role play Participates effectively

g Students will participate in a series of
drama role-plays, improvisation games Can work as part of a team
and emotions explorations.

Able to express an emotion

Identify emotions

Describe a character

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 Stage 3: Lesson Sequence

Lesson Description

Lesson Emotions Intro

1
1. Brainstorm: what do we know about emotions? What are
feelings? How do they affect us?

2. Word discuss: Go through the different words that represent

emotions

3. Watch clip: Inside out- discuss emotions in clip

4. Emotions wheel: Create an emotions wheel each- (split pins

for spinner) and once complete spin and act out an
emotion.

Lesson
2 Emotions Breakdown: Joy, Anger, Disgust

1. Watch selected emotion clip one at a time. (e.g. Joy)

2. Discuss the emotion- what does it look like? Feel like? Write on
board
3. Facial expression for that emotion
4. Act it out as a group
5. Repeat this process for each emotion.
6. Summary- Discuss all emotions explored with students

Lesson
3 Emotions Breakdown: Fear, Sadness, joy recap

1. Watch selected emotion clip one at a time. (e.g. Fear)

2. Discuss the emotion- what does it look like? Feel like? Write on
board
3. Facial expression for that emotion
4. Act it out as a group
5. Repeat this process for each emotion.
6. Summary- Discuss all emotions explored with students

Lesson Multiple emotions

4
1. Watch short film boundin focus on main character

2. Discuss the different emotions that he felt throughout

3. What made him happy? Sad?

4. Students act out different parts from the clip

5. Emotion share- one time they were happy

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Lesson
5 Emotions improvisation

1. Emotions game: Students seated in a circle- one at a time

collect an emotion out of a hat. Student then need to act out
that emotion while the class has 3 guesses to get it correct.
2. Emotions improvisation: Students get a situation to act out in
small groups for 2 minutes. We then share small emotions
plays. E.g.- just won a prize/ lost favourite toy etc.

Lesson Character: Integrated with fairy-tale learning

7-10 The following lessons will then be focussed around fairy tales.
Students will respond to questions and role plays based on the mixed
up fairy-tale study
a) The three little wolves and the big bad pig
b) Seriously Cinderella is so annoying
c) Honestly Red Riding Hood was rotten
*Structure to follow
1. Read a fractured fairy tale story
2. Discuss characters and settings
3. Students role play key events in story and share
4. Students change the story and role play

Websites/ Resources

Resource Website
Descripti
on

Emotions http://www.thehelpfulcounselor.com/20insideoutclipstohelpteachchildren
clips aboutfeelings/
inside out

Acting http://www.brighthubeducation.com/middleschoollessonplansthearts/13061
emotions teachingdramaactingandemotions/

Drama http://www.brighthubeducation.com/elementary-school-activities/13500-
warm ups mirrors-and-statues-drama-games/?cid=parsely_rec

Exploring http://www.dannypettry.com/ebook_emotions.pdf
emotions

Feeling http://www.nicurriculum.org.uk/docs/key_stages_1_and_2/areas_of_learning/
good pdmu/livinglearningtogether/year3/yr3_unit2.pdf
feeling sad
resource

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Roll an http://www.classroomfreebiestoo.com/2012/08/more-roll-dice-freebies-by-
emotion msjordanreads.html

Emotional https://www.pinterest.com/pin/497155246335549609/
wheel

Drama http://autismteachingstrategies.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Emotion-
cards Card-Activity-PDF4.pdf

Mixed up http://rockinteachermaterials.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/just-my-point-of-
fairy tales view.html

Outside http://www.teachertrap.com/2014/10/understanding-characters.html/?
and inside utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:
+TeacherTrap+(Teacher+Trap)#_AEKRId
feelings

Character http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/sites/default/files/posts/u133/pdfs/char
traits acter_trait_poster.pdf
posters

Feelings https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Feelings-and-Emotions-
and Cards-1651017
emotions
cards

Pixar short https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhLG4o20-1g

animation
boundin

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