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Theatre Lesson Plan
Lesson
8 -
Pantomime
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Arts Discipline:
Theatre
Grade level:
Grade
2
Standards:
2.1 Perform in group improvisational theatrical games that develop
cooperative skills and concentration.
Approximate time:
45 minutes
Topic:
Creating theatre through pantomime.
Objectives:
- Students
will demonstrate focus and concentration as they move their whole
bodies during pantomime activities.
- Students
will demonstrate focus and concentration by remaining silent during
pantomime activities.
- Students
will perform actions and scenarios accurately.
Interdisciplinary
Connections:
History/Social Science
- HSS
2.5 Students understand the importance of individual action and
character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have
made a difference in other’s lives.
Resources/Materials:
Vocabulary:
- pantomime:
acting without words through facial expression, gesture, and movement
- gesture:
an expressive movement of the body or limbs
Introduction:
WARM UP
- Explain
that pantomime is:
- Using
the body to express an idea, emotion, or a character.
- It
is acting without speaking.
- Pantomime
tells the audience who we are, what we are doing, and how we feel about
what we are doing.
- Pantomime
uses no props or objects to work with.
- Everything
is communicated through body movement.
- Ask
students to pick up a pencil then put it down.
- Do
this several times asking the students to notice how their arm, hand
and fingers move.
- Now
have students pretend to pick up the pencil, and ask the following
questions:
- “What
was different about picking up an imaginary object?”
- “Did
you move your arm, hand and fingers in the same way?”
- Ask
students to choose an imaginary piece of fruit and eat it in a way that
clearly shows what it is.
- Look
for peeling a banana, a sour lemon, cutting an apple, dividing an
orange into sections, etc.
- Have
the students show to a partner, and ask the following questions:
- “Can
your partner guess what fruit you were eating?”
- “What
different movements did the actor do to make the meaning clear to
you?”
Procedures:
MODELING
- Review
heroes, inventors, and explorers learned in Unit 6 and their
accomplishments.
- Using
the Promethean Flipchart, have students match the inventor to the
things they are known and famous for.
GUIDED PRACTICE
- Using
famous people
cards,
have one or two students pantomime the famous person or what they were
famous for.
- The
rest of the class, using ActiVotes will guess who the person is they
are pantomiming.
Closure:
DEBRIEF AND EVALUATE
- “Did
you understand what/who the characters were?”
- “How
did they feel about what they were doing?”
- “What
did the actors do to make the scene clear to you?”
- “What
objects did the actors use? How could you tell?”
- “How
does the whole body work to communicate an idea, emotion or
character?”
- “How
easy or difficult was it to perform all three essentials of pantomime
at once: perform the action, be someone else, and convey the idea of
what was happening?”
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