Status and Tragedy
Status and Tragedy Teaching Unit

Status and Tragedy

Drama Teaching Unit for 8th 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 show 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: Introducing Status
    Understanding what it means and how it can be represented using body language and vocal expression.

  • Lesson 2: High And Low Status
    How to give and take status using drama skills in the exercise ‘Master and Servant’.

  • Lesson 3: Using Space To Show Status In A Relationship
    Improvisation of status driven scenarios culminating in a class tableaux.

  • Lesson 4: Understanding Hierarchy
    The transmission of status and devising scenes to represent this.

  • Lesson 5: Assessment Preparation
    Students learn how status changes in the exercise ‘Rise and Fall’.

  • Lesson 6: Assessment
    Performance a piece of drama for assessment that involves the rise and fall of a central character.

Additional resources are included in the appendices

  • End Of Unit Self-Assessment Form

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