Description
Drama Themes is a two-book series focusing on eight high-interest areas that will help students to develop skills in choral dramatisation, communication skills, group participation, movement, interpretation and much more. This series is jam-packed with brilliant ideas, innovative approaches and highly practical strategies which will also make integrating drama into other Arts
areas or English work more manageable.
Units in both books are structured in the following way:
- Learning opportunities
- Games and exercises related to the unit
- Drama activities to stimulate imagination, promote social growth and develop improvisational skills
- Case study of actual classroom implementation
- Strategies for extending the ideas into writing, reading, the visual arts
- Assessment: observation guides for teachers and students’ self-assessment profiles
Drama Themes Book A contains units on:
- Humour – Using rhymes
- Mystery – Using picture books
- Fantasy – Using stories
- Animals – Using stories
Drama Themes Book B contains units on:
- Relationships – Using plays
- Fairy Tales – Using traditional stories
- Diversity and Equity – Using scripts