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Hats - Creating A Character Teaching Unit

Hats - Creating a Character

Drama Teaching Unit for 7th Grade (6 Lesson Plans)

This teaching unit introduces students to a range of strategies that will help them to understand how to portray status to an audience in their practical work. It examines how to use body language, facial expressions, tone of voice, heights/ levels and depth. It also demonstrates how space is used to demonstrate a relationship between characters.

Each lesson plan has clearly stated objectives and learning outcomes. They are structured to include introductory warm up, development and plenary sessions. A homework task is also included.

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The teaching unit contains 6 drama lesson plans.

  • Lesson 1: Introduction To Character Building
    Students develop characters with frozen pictures and dialogue, inspired by different hats.

  • Lesson 2: Building A Character's History
    Use of hot seating to add depth to a character, along with the warm up exercise ‘Musical Hats’.

  • Lesson 3: Developing The Character Further
    Representing professions using frozen pictures.

  • Lesson 4: Building A Character from Text
    Understanding text and deciding how create a dramatic representation.

  • Lesson 5: Improvised Characters
    Introducing Stanislavski techniques and improvisation in the exercise ‘Murder on The Orient Express’.

  • Lesson 6: Assessment
    Improvisation of the events at a particularly eventful party.

Supporting materials include

  • Poem: The Breakfast

Additional resources are included in the appendices

  • Basic Drama Skills
  • End Of Unit Self-Assessment Form

The teaching unit is supplied as a PDF file, readable on most computers.