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Movie Musical Classroom Study Guide: Matilda

The study guide provides the following: pre-viewing questions, viewing questions, and post-viewing activities.
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Movie Musical Classroom Study Guide: Shrek

This classroom movie study guide looks specifically at the 2013 filmed version of the live musical Shrek. The musical is based on the 2001 movie of the same name. The study guide provides the following: pre-viewing questions, viewing questions, and post-viewing activities.
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Movie Musical Classroom Study Guide: Singin' In The Rain

The study guide provides the following: pre-viewing questions, viewing questions, and post-viewing activities.
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School Year Calendar 2024-2025

Inspirational quotes for a new school year, all quotes credited to Steven Stack, from a variety of DTA professional development courses. Printable calendar to customize for any school year.
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Poster Set of 12

Based on the quotes from the 2024-2025 DTA School Year Calendar, a set of 12 posters with quotes by Steven Stack, from a range of the PD courses he instructs in the Drama Teacher Academy.

00 - Overview

This the overview to the toolkit, which breaks down the process of learning how to direct into specific tools. Each tool comes with exercises, assignments, handouts, and Reflections.
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02 - The Adaptation Process

Once you have chosen the story or stories you want to present, there’s a process to follow in order to adapt a story into a script, outlined in this resource.

13 - Story Theatre Scripts

These story theatre scripts are ready for performance. Each story includes at least one narrator, and each one can be adapted further to meet your needs.

00 - Overview

The overview introduces Story Theatre, and outlines the 13 sections of the toolkit.

01 - Choosing Stories

The first step in dramatizing a story for story theatre is to choose which stories you want to adapt. In order to narrow our choices, we’re going to look at fables, fairy tales, myths from around the world (not just the ones from ancient Greece), picture books and chapter books.

01 - Step One: Link with Yourself

The first step on the empathetic journey is with yourself. How can you connect with others if you don’t know who you are? Students will explore activities that allow them to think and reflect inward.

01 - The Creative Classroom

This resources describes a successful creative classroom, including procedures and norm setting, and also includes additional resources to encourage creativity: self-reflection sentence starters, brainstorming, bring on the silly, how do you encourage creativity, questions for creative norm setting and different ways to create groups.

09 - Story Theatre in the Classroom

Story theatre incorporates all components of theatre into a compact form, including research and adaptation, acting and performance, interpretation and design, and directing.

levels of understanding mountain top poster

Contributed by Lea Marshall

this is a poster (i had it printed as an engineer print. so HUGE.) i created for my classroom wall. i use it for students to assess their learning as they climb the mountain of learning up to the mountain top level of creativity!!! it also helps students

Semester Long Plan for Physicality in Fables

Contributed by Lindsay Johnson

This is a rough semester outline for a semester designed around using physicality to bring animal / object characters to life in fable adaptations. Many of the ideas and lessons are pulled from the DTA site, especially the mask course. There are rubrics,

Semester Long Plan for Improv, Scene Work, and Theater of the Oppressed

Contributed by Lindsay Johnson

This is a semester long plan for a 7th-8th grade Drama Class. It includes many materials from the DTA site, especially from the Improv course. It begins with ensemble and improv, moves to scene work, and ends with some Boal exercises and Forum Theater fro

Performance Rubric and Student Critique

Contributed by Lindsay Johnson

Here is an example of a Performance Rubric I use in my classroom to grade Performance Assessments (this one is grading a partner performance of an open scene, but I use the same basic format for all my Performance Assessments, just swapping out the rubric

Theatre History Unit

Contributed by Claire Broome

This unit allows flexibility in choosing theatre styles throughout history to explore. This unit was created for grade 11 Drama within the Ontario Curriculum. Please feel free to adapt this work.
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