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Complete three of nine projects on A Midsummer Night's Dream to make a tic-tac-toe! Includes a rubric for assessment.

If you want students to get comfortable with Shakespeare’s language, use insults. The objective of this exercise is to get students to use their voice and body as they practice words outside their natural normal vocabulary. To understand the statement: “Words do not mean what they mean, words mean what you intend them to mean.”

The format is simple. One question, one answer, and a rubric all on the same sheet. Use these answers as exit slips, as a follow up written assignment after a class discussion, or as a mid-unit check in. Covers Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet: Prince of Denmark, The Tempest, Othello, Macbeth, and The Taming of the Shrew.

This one page handout is a great guide for students to keep in mind when performing the Bard and other classical works.

The more you can invest your actors in the process of creation, the more they will stay engaged and interested throughout rehearsals. This resource explores alternatives to the traditional rehearsal process as well as alternatives to traditional blocking methods.

This resource includes a variety of warmup ideas for rehearsal, including physical warmups, vocal warmups, creativity warmups, and focus warmups.

This resource addresses the challenge of classical texts, by exploring how practical drama activities can help students better identify with the complexity of the language.

If you are staging a comedy or a comedic scene, then you need to provide opportunities for your cast to play and laugh together at the beginning of rehearsals to encourage a spirit of light-hearted exploration and discovery. This resources helps you to adapt well-known activities to meet your needs, depending on the type of comedy you need to explore.

The final rehearsals before a show meets its audience are probably among the most critical. This resources includes exercises to help students become familiar with their production as a complete whole.

The overview includes a table of contents outlining all of the resources in the Rehearsal Toolkit.

A guideline for starting rehearsals off on the right foot, including setting goals, expectations, and alternative strategies.

Use this rubric to assess tableau exercises and assignments.

This assessment tool for scene performance includes a rubric, a performance task outline, and a performer checklist.

The format is simple. One question, one answer, and a rubric all on the same sheet. Use these answers as exit slips, as a follow up written assignment after a class discussion, or as a mid-unit check in. There are questions for A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie.

Use this rubric to assess scene performance.

Complete three of nine projects on The Crucible to make a tic-tac-toe! Includes a rubric for assessment.

Use this rubric to assess students' contributions to the ensemble/class on a weekly basis. Part of the Middle School curriculum, Unit One: Ensemble Building and Class Norms.

Use this checklist to help students assess their progress in a journal writing assignment.

An exit slip is a question, a prompt, a rating, or a response to the day’s lesson. Here are 100 prompts for you to use in the classroom.

This assessment tool for middle school monologues includes a rubric, a performance task outline, and a performer checklist.