Creating a Drama Sketch from a Story or Folk Talk (Primary 3)

 

CULTURAL AND CREATIVE ARTS

THIRD TERM  

WEEK 1

PRIMARY 3

THEME – ENTERTAINMENT 

PREVIOUS LESSON – Third Term Examination

TOPIC – DRAMA 

LEARNING AREA

1. Meaning of Play Creation

2. Process of Creating Play

 

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES 

By the end of the lesson, the pupils should have attained the following objectives (cognitive, affective and psychomotor) and should be able to –

1. explain the meaning of play creation.

2 explain two ways of creating plays.

3 create a drama sketch from a given storyline or folk tale.

 

ENTRY BEHAVIOUR

Acting

 

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of:

Textbooks, Notebooks, Pencils, Cleaners, DVDs or VCDs, Television.

 

 

METHOD OF TEACHING – Choose a suitable and appropriate methods for the lessons.

Note – Irrespective of choosing methods of teaching, always introduce an activities that will arouse pupil’s interest or lead them to the lessons. 

 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

1. Scheme of Work

2. 9 – Years Basic Education Curriculum

3. Course Book

4. All Relevant Material

5. Online Information

 

CONTENT OF THE LESSON  

LESSON ONE – INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES 

Teacher’s/Pupil’s Activities – Plays a video of a short play involving children as actors.

 

MEANING OF DRAMA

Teacher’s/Pupil’s Activities – Based on the short play, asks the pupils – what is drama? Listen to them and support their explanation.

Drama is a form of play.

It may last about five to fifteen minutes.

A drama sketch is a short play.

 

 

MEANING OF PLAY CREATING 

Play means to act, to do or to perform a play or drama.

Drama is also a play written for theater, television, radio, and film.

 

PROCESS OF CREATING A PLAY  

The process of creating a good play are –

1. Scripting is a written play or drama

This scripting, people read and their roles in the script.

 

2. Improvisation is an unwritten play or drama.

In improvisation, the script are given to the actors and actresses verbally.

 

Creating a good play requires

1. Teamwork

2. Patriotism

3. Unity

4. Courtesy

5. Dignity of labour, etc.

 

LESSON TWO – Teacher’s/Pupil’s Activities – Leads pupils to start a Play Creating Process through Improvisation.

 

 

PRESENTATION

To deliver the lesson, the teacher adopts the following steps:

1. To introduce the lesson, the teacher revises the previous lesson. Based on this, he/she asks the pupils some questions;

2. Plays a video of a play involving children as actors.

Pupil’s Activities – Watch a video of children’s play.

3. Explains the meaning of play creating.

4. Explains the process of play creating.

5. Explains the concepts of scripting and improvisation.

Pupil’s Activities – Listen to the explanation by the teacher.

6. Leads pupils to start a play creating process.

Pupil’s Activities – Participate in the play creating process.

 

CONCLUSION

  • To conclude the lesson for the week, the teacher revises the entire lesson and links it to the following week’s lesson.

 

LESSON EVALUATION 

Pupils to:

1. explain the meaning of play creation.

2 explain two ways of creating plays.

3. create an improvised play based on the storyline of a given story with any one of the stated themes.