Standard 60-minute flow for every lesson

• 10 min Warm-up: body + breath

• 15 min Technique Focus Activity 1

• 15 min Technique Focus Activity 2

• 15 min Technique Focus Activity 3

• 5 min Calm close

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  Cycle 1: Foundations + Script A (Lessons 1–5)

  Theme: Ensemble and stage basics

  Lesson 1: Welcome to Drama

• Skills: Ensemble rules, stage space, freeze and focus, tableau
• Activities:
  • Warm-up: Name-and-action circle
  • Focus game: Freeze statues, quick tableaux with prompts
  • Stage map game: Learn stage areas (US, DS, SL, SR, C)
  • Reflection: “What makes good audience and actor behavior?”
• Mini-vocab: stage left/right, upstage/downstage, center, tableau

• Lesson 2: Voice and Projection

• Skills: Breath, projection, articulation
• Activities:
  • Warm-up: Breathing with counting and “siren” slides
  • Diction fun: Tongue twisters at different volumes and paces
  • Call-and-response lines across the room
  • Pair work: Read a short rhyme with crisp diction
• Mini-vocab: projection, articulation, pace

• Lesson 3: Movement and Mime

• Skills: Body awareness, mime basics, gesture clarity
• Activities:
  • Warm-up: Mirror partners and walking levels
  • Mime toolkit: Weight, resistance, invisible objects
  • Group mime: Create a silent mini-story with 3 beats
  • Share-out: Audience identifies actions
• Mini-vocab: mime, levels, gesture

• Lesson 4: Intro to Script A

• Skills: Script parts, listening for cues, taking turns
• Activities:
  • Script features: Title, character list, stage directions
  • First read: Teacher-led read-through
  • Casting: Assign roles and understudies
  • Block Scene 1: Simple entrances/exits, places, and focus
• Mini-vocab: cast, cue, stage directions, blocking

• Lesson 5: Dress + Performance A (15 minutes)

• Skills: Performing with audience etiquette
• Activities:
  • Quick cue-to-cue
  • Dress run with simple props
  • Celebration and feedback stars
• Mini-vocab: dress rehearsal, cue-to-cue

Cycle 2: Character + Script B (Lessons 6–10)

Theme: Character voice and physicality

Lesson 6: Character Clues

• Skills: Inferring character from text, objectives
• Activities:
  • Warm-up: Emotion statues with quick transitions
  • Character hot-seat: Students answer in-role
  • Script B read: Circle read with emotions
• Mini-vocab: character, objective

Lesson 7: Voice for Character

• Skills: Pitch, pace, pause for meaning
• Activities:
  • Warm-up: Vocal color (happy, worried, brave)
  • Line-lab: Change meaning using pause and stress
  • Apply to Script B Scene 1
• Mini-vocab: pitch, emphasis

Lesson 8: Physical Choices

• Skills: Posture, gait, gesture
• Activities:
  • Walks gallery: Light/heavy, old/young, sneaky/bold
  • Trio pictures: Status tableaux
  • Block Script B Scene 2 with clear physical traits
• Mini-vocab: status, gesture

Lesson 9: Rehearsal B

• Skills: Hitting marks, cue pickup, ensemble listening
• Activities:
  • Run scenes 1–3 with traffic patterns
  • Add simple props and transitions
  • Notes: Voice clarity and shared focus
• Mini-vocab: mark, cheat-out

Lesson 10: Dress + Performance B (15 minutes)

• Activities:
  • Warm-up: Vocal and physical check
  • Dress run, tighten transitions
  • Performance B
  • Feedback: “Glow and grow” notes

Cycle 3: Storytelling + Script C (Lessons 11–15)

Theme: Story shape and narrators

Lesson 11: Story Beats

Skills: Beginning-middle-end, stakes

• Activities:
  • Warm-up: Pass-the-action with start/middle/end
  • Build a story mountain with images
  • Script C read: Identify 5 key beats
• Mini-vocab: beat, climax

Lesson 12: Narration and Chorus

• Skills: Ensemble speaking, choral emphasis
• Activities:
  • Vocal layering: Whisper-group, narrator-group
  • Echo and canon lines
  • Stage picture: Narrator vs action zones
• Mini-vocab: chorus, narration

Lesson 13: Transitions and Tempo

• Skills: Quick scene changes, tempo for mood
• Activities:
  • Transition drill with counts
  • Music/beat cue practice if available
  • Block Script C transitions
• Mini-vocab: tempo, transition
• Skills: Integrating narration, focus control
• Activities:
  • Run-through with chorus dynamics
  • Adjust levels and diagonals for sightlines
  • Notes: Pace and clarity
• Mini-vocab: sightline, diagonal

• Lesson 15: Dress + Performance C (15 minutes)

• Activities:
  • Tech-lite pass for transitions
  • Performance C
  • Audience feedback via two-stars-and-a-wish

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  Cycle 4: Collaboration + Script D (Lessons 16–20)

  Theme: Student choice and simple production elements

  Lesson 16: Team Roles and Mini-design

• Skills: Collaboration, simple prop/set ideas
• Activities:
  • Warm-up: “Build the machine” group collaboration
  • Teams: Actors, props, stage crew helpers
  • Script D read and choose design motifs
• Mini-vocab: prop, set, crew

• Lesson 17: Staging with Purpose

• Skills: Motivated movement, sightlines, levels
• Activities:
  • Block key moments on varied levels
  • Practice crossing with purpose and pause for emphasis
  • Begin Scene 1–2 staging
• Mini-vocab: motivation, cross

• Lesson 18: Refining Moments

• Skills: Sharpen cues, diction, ensemble cues
• Activities:
  • Polish difficult lines and cue chains
  • Add simple sound or rhythm cues if allowed
  • Full run minus transitions
• Mini-vocab: cue chain, diction

• Lesson 19: Final Rehearsal D

• Skills: Confidence, memory, professionalism
• Activities:
  • Full run with timed transitions
  • Solve last staging issues
  • Peer notes with sentence frames
• Mini-vocab: professionalism

• Lesson 20: Dress + Performance D (15 minutes) + Course Reflection

• Activities:
  • Dress and performance D
  • Medals of mastery: each student shares one skill they improved
  • Course reflection sheets
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