HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD Drama Unit. This is a fully detailed, curriculum aligned drama unit for Middle School and High School which provides you with 5 x 100 minute whole lesson plans. NO PREP REQUIRED! This unit comes with everything you need including full drama lesson plans, homework tasks, drama unit evaluation handout, drama unit assessment template and comprehension questions. I've done your term planning for you - just print and go. Suitable for all middle school and high school levels but a perfect unit to introduce students to working with a play text. Students will read and perform parts of the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play and perform complimentary activities. As well as looking at the characters, students will explore a range of abstract drama techniques.
 
Note: the unit goes into Part 1 but due to time contrainsts (an ongoing teaching battle - time) the lesson activities are based on Part 1 (setting up the play like this though allows students to run with the end of the play themselves if you want to go on to perform the whole play).
 
*****YOU WILL NEED A COPY OF THE PLAY AND STUDENTS WILL ALSO NEED A COPY - THIS IS NOT INCLUDED AND THE UNIT REFERS TO SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE PLAY THAT MUST BE READ FROM THE PLAY****** You can find the play on Amazon or Book Depository (who ship internationally).
 
Note on timing: you may like to take some of the activities slower than indicated. I have jam packed the unit on purpose so you have plenty of options for dynamic classes.
 
THE HARRY POTTER DRAMA UNIT INCLUDES:
5 x 100 Minute Detailed Lesson Plans with well explained activities in a well structured sequence focusing on abstract performance techniques
Comprehension Questions
Homework Tasks
Additional Activities
Harry Potter Drama Unit Reflection Handout
Unit Assessment Template (for ease of marking the drama unit)
 
KEY DRAMA VOCABULARY: Play. Stage Directions. Character Impressions. Abstract Performance. Freeze Frames. Internal Thoughts. Abstract Characters. Abstract Dialogue. Crescendo. Script. Characters. Relationship. Physical Theatre. Theme.
 
HARRY POTTER DRAMA UNIT AIMS: Students will explore the play ‘Harry Potter & the Cursed Child’ using abstract performance strategies. Students will:
Explore different abstract (non-naturalistic) performance strategies
Discuss their impressions of characters based on the play text
Use a play text as stimulus
Write and perform their own short script based on the play
Interpret a key theme of the play in an abstract way
Think about and respond to a character's inner thoughts and feelings, motivations and emotions
Rehease and present scenes using different abstract drama strategies
Refine work through collaborative rehearsal
Discuss a key character relationship and relate this to real life
Use physical theatre to portray elements of the story
 
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