Amelia Wills Jan.

22, 2019
Instructor: John Poulson
Year Plan

Grade: 9
Time: 75 Hours (September- January)
Approach: Combination

Week Thematic Unit Forms/ Components Learner Expectations

Integrated in Unit
• Warm Ups • Orientation #1-26
• Improv Games • Movement #1-16
1-2 Orientation • Movement games • Voice & Speech #1-6
• Readers Theatre (Beginning to • Theatre History # 4-5
look at scripts) • Improv/Acting #1-7
• Planned Improvisation • Improv/Acting: #9-28
• Spontaneous Improv • Movement #21-22, 24-
3-5 Lunch Improv • Dance Improv 27
• Movement • Speech #13-14, 18
• Character Voices • Theatre Studies #6
• Theatre History
• Clowning
• Script writing • Improv/Acting #27-33
• Storytelling • Movement #12, 16-17,
6-9 Monologues • Movement 24-25, 27
• Tableau • Speech #9-11, 13, 15-18
• Self- reflection/critiquing • Theatre Studies #9-12
• Theatre makeup if needed • Technical Theatre #8-10
Script • Script Analysis • Theatre Studies #7-12
10-13 Analysis/ • Character Breakdowns • Improv/Acting #26-32
Scene Work • Workshop & perform Short • Speech #15-18
Scenes • Movement #26-27
• Movement • Movement #20-28
• Short scripted scenes • Speech #15-18
• Story telling • Improv/Acting #26-32
14-17 Christmas • Design Set, lights sound, • Technical Theatre #10-
Collective costume, make-up 16
• Dance
• Masks
• Musical Theatre
18-20 Final Project • In small groups or individually • It should pull from all
students must create a scene disciplines depending
using the different skills on what they do for
learned in the semester. their project
Amelia Wills Jan. 22, 2019
Instructor: John Poulson
Year Plan