Bootcamp Lesson Plan 

Grade 9 Drama 
Miss.Morrison  

Stage 1: Desired Results 

General Learning Outcome(s)  Goal I
- To acquire knowledge of self and others through
participation in and reflection on dramatic
experience

Goal II
- To develop competency in communication skills
through participation in and exploration of
various dramatic disciplines.

Specific Learning Outcome(s)  Movement

(Level I)
- Create movement in response to music
(Level III)
- Create and sustain mood through movement
- Coordinate movement and movement patterns
with other students

Speech
(Level II)
- Use volume, articulation and projection to
achieve clarity
- Use voice to communicate mood and emotion
- Use movement and gesture to clarify and
enhance speech and character
- Apply speech skills in a variety of speaking
situations

Improvisation/Acting
(Level I)
- Make logical choices within the boundaries of
situation and character
(Level II)
- Use varied stimuli for character development
- Use body and body language to enhance
 characterization
- Enter and exit in character
- Sustain a character throughout a scene

(Level III)
- Analyze text for meaning and character
development
- Recite text from memory
- Rehearse and polish and present text
- Critique the work of self and others through
observation of specific details

Learning Objective(s)   Students will be able to demonstrate Movement, Speech

(after this lesson students will be able to)  and Acting through various outcomes in their Bootcamp
performances (Monologue, Song and Dance)

Outcomes from (2013) Ministerial  - Demonstrate good communication skills and the
Order  ability to work cooperatively with others
- Create opportunities through play and
imagination
 
 
Stage 2: Assessment Evidence 
Summative  Rubric provided Formative  3 stars and 1 Wish
Assessment  by TA (Mr.D) Assessment 

 
 
 
Tech to  - Music/Sound System Resources to  N/A
do  for Dance and Song Bring 
- Stage Lights
 
 
 
 
 
 
Stage 3: Learning Experience 
Time (64mins)  Content/Description  Notes 

5mins Attendance/Question of Attendance

The Day
Question of the day: What is one goal you
have for your performance ?

6mins Rehearsal of Dance/Song Run Through Boot Camp Song

(Seasons of Love)
- Do song first while students are still in
circle (3 times)

525,600 minutes
525,000 moments so dear
525,600 hundred minutes
How do you measure, measure a year?
Girls
In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups
of coffee

Boys
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife

In 525,600 hundred minutes

How do you measure a year in the life
How about love?
How about love?
How about love?
Measure in love
Seasons of love
Seasons of love

Run Through Boot Camp Dance

(The Sound x 1975)
 2mins Students Focus Give students a minute or two, to find focus
and go through their monologue once

Remainder of Performances Remind Students

Class (2mins - Of good audience behaviour and their
for closure) ability to make or break the Scenes for
their classmates
- to Breathe and Have Fun with it!

Alternate between, Song, Dance and Monologues

Monologues
- Individual
Song
- Pairs (Boy and Girl)

Dance
- Pairs (Boy and Girl)

For each performance take two stars and one

wish from audience
- Remind students to phrase their I wish
in an “I wish” statement

Give One star and One wish yourself

2mins Closure Next Class

- We’ll continue with Boot Camp
performances

Thank you! You’re Dismissed

 
Student Differentiation  N/A

 
Reflection/Follow Up 
 

 
Resources Used