Thursday, September 24th

Lesson Plan
Drama 9
Movement/Voice Development: Lesson 1

GLO: GOAL II To develop competency in communication skills through participation in and

exploration of various dramatic disciplines.

SLOs: Speech- #1, 2, 8, 12, 13

Procedure:
1. Warm up: Yoga- https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=UEEsdXn8oG8&ab_channel=YogaWithAdriene
2. Voice warm-up
a. Tongue twisters-
i. red leather, yellow leather
ii. Toy boat
iii. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can
b. Humming
c. Vowels
d. breathing
3. 1 duck, 2 legs, quack game
a. Students stand in a circle
b. Each student says 1 word each and the game travels around the circle
c. One duck, two legs, quack.
d. Two ducks, four legs, quack quack
e. Three ducks, six legs, quack, quack, quack.
f. If someone makes a mistake, they are out. Play continues until 1 person is left.
4. Play the alphabet race game.
a. Break the class up into 2 groups.
b. The groups race to say the alphabet the fastest. The first person will point at
someone and say “A”, the person who was pointed at points at someone else
and says “B”, and so on.
c. Once they have completed the alphabet, the whole group will sit down.
5. Play the Fairytale Kingdom Resonators game.
a. Giant- Fee Fi Foh Fum hand on stomach
b. Queen/King- I rule his kingdom hand on chest
c. Prince/Princess- I will slay the dragon fingers on cheeks
d. Witch- try this apple dear fingers on nose
6. Spaghetti game
a. Students stand in a circle
b. The leader says a mood or emotion word. (happy, energetic, sad, melancholy)
c. The student must step into the middle of the circle and say the word “spaghetti”
in that mood.
7. White board web: what are the parts of the body that help us speak?
a. Brainstorm as a class and write all the answers up on the whiteboard.
b. vocal tracts, lungs, diaphragm, bronchi, trachea, larynx, uvula, pharynx, vocal
folds.
c. Write down ones that were missed and discuss what each of the parts do.
8. Actors need to know how to use their voice in different ways. This means they need to
work on their vocal tone, their pitch, projection, volume, rhythm, and phrasing. It is
important to articulate, especially in the time of masks. Let’s go over what these things
mean:
a. Vocal tone: distinguishes your voice from other voices.
i. Clear tones result from a relaxed, open throat. Use your hands to
massage your throat and help it relax.
b. Pitch: the highness or lowness of your voice. Everyone has a different range and
you can extend your range by doing exercises like singing and sirens.
i. Say the word “oh” with different inflections. (that hurts, lovely, so what,
perhaps, look out, dont be so rude, you expect me to believe that?)
c. Projection and volume: varying volume means different things. You should be
able to hear every bit of dialogue.
i. I want to be a lumberjack
d. Rhythm and phrasing: speaking in a specific rhythm can help us to understand
the context of what we are reading.
“Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;”
9. Introduce poem assignment