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  • Building an Improviser’s Mindset

    Sample lesson plan available for free for a limited time - login or create a free account to download! In this High School lesson, students make connections between how improvisational skills can improve social and emotional skills.

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Lesson Plan Library

Lesson plans and units created for EdTA members in a common template for ease of use. Our library includes a wide variety of lesson plans for grades K - High School; including a wide variety of lesson plans across all areas of the Theatre Model Curriculum Framework:  acting, directing/producing, designing & technical theatre, writing/devising and dramaturgy.   

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Access adjudicated lesson plans designed for EdTA.

  • Building Ensemble Agreements
    Students learn to create their own classroom agreements in this SEL embedded lesson plan by Julia Cuppy.
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  • Plays in Time
    Comparing "A Raisin in the Sun" and "All My Sons" for an analysis of the themes and comparison to contemporary issues.
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  • Elements of Staging
    High School Advanced lesson by Kristie L. Fuller and Kate Lee. Through a series of exercises, students select a theme to explore through research and devising work.
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  • Collaborative Playmaking
    High School Advanced lesson by Julia Cuppy. In this lesson, students collaborate and create a short improvised theatre piece centered on a central idea or theme by using the devised theatre process.
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  • Forum Theatre
    High School Advanced lesson by Kaz Chandler. In this lesson, students investigate the techniques of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed through Forum Theatre in exploring reform of social issues through theatrical convention.
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Lesson Plans with annotated SEL Connections

Social Emotional Learning encompasses skills in self awareness, social awareness, self management, responsible decision making and relationship skills. For SEL to be most effective, it must be both explicit and consistent. This page features theatre lesson plans across all aspects of the curriculum which model intentional SEL instruction by making natural connections to what goes on in the theatre classroom. We make it easy for you by demonstrating strategies and language to add SEL power to your lessons. 

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Download and use these lesson plans which model Social and Emotional learning connections in theatre classrooms, created by educators for EdTA as a part of the 2021 EdTA SEL Lesson Plan Project.

  • Auditioning

    High School Advanced lesson by Kristie L. Farr. After reading a play together, students select a monologue from the play to prepare for a mock audition.

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  • Performing the Character Analysis Monologue

    High School Advanced lesson by Natalie Dommer with SEL Strategies by Julia Heckathorn for students to learn how to research the world of a character beyond the script for the purpose of writing a monologue and then presenting it.

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  • Shakespeare - The Soliloquy

    High School Advanced lesson by Jason Robert LeClair with SEL Strategies by Kathleen Woods. In this lesson, students memorize and deliver a soliloquy from a classical play with blocking and emotional purpose.

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  • Elements of Staging

    High School Advanced lesson by Kristie L. Farr and Kate Lee. Through a series of exercises, students select a theme to explore through research and devising work.

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  • Director's Vision Statement

    High School Advanced lesson by Jason Robert LeClair with SEL Strategies by Kathleen Woods. In this lesson, students learn the process of constructing a director’s vision statement for a script.

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