Grade 7 Overall Expectations:
Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process to process drama and the development of drama works, using the elements and conventions of drama to communicate feelings, ideas, and multiple perspectives;
- Putting on a Play: The Young Playwright’s Guide to Scripting, Directing, and Performing (Book)
- The Ultimate Audition Book for Teens: 111 One-Minute Monologues (Book)
- Magnificent Monologues for Kids (Book)
- Curtains Up! (Hoopla eBook)
- Hidden By Time (Hoopla eBook)
- Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce (Hoopla eBook)
- Mime Basics: Acting Tips & Techniques Playlist (YouTube)
- Grade 7 Drama Lesson (YouTube)
- Theatre Etiquette 101 (Website)
- Introducing the Tableau to Students (Website)
- Selected Self Confidence Building Activities (Website)
- Peer Pressure Role Plays (Website)
Reflecting, Responding, and Analysing: apply the critical analysis process to communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings in response to a variety of drama works and experiences;
- Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway (DVD)
- Elements of Drama (YouTube)
- Movement from Freeze Frames (YouTube)
- Drama Tableau Project (YouTube)
- Types of Stages, Parts of the Stage & Body Positions (YouTube)
- Into the Woods (YouTube)
- How Theatre Education Can Save the World (YouTube)
- Engaging the Non-Theatre Student (Website)
- The Importance of Ensemble Thinking (Website)
Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of drama and theatre forms, traditions, and styles from the past and present, and their sociocultural and historical contexts.
- Musical Theater: An Appreciation (Book)
- Shakespeare’s Theater (Book)
- Break a Leg: The Kids’ Guide to Acting and Stagecraft (Book)
- Lights, Camera, Action!: Making Movies and TV from the Inside Out (Book)
- The History of the Motion Picture (Book)
- Lux Radio Theatre 1935-36 (Hoopla eAudioBook)
- History of Theatre (YouTube)
- The History of Musical Theater (YouTube)
- Theatre by Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Website)