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Primary

Turning the Page - Improvising Literacy
This set of four lessons will demonstrate how to introduce primary students to improvisation and the ways in which improvisation games and exercises can support the oral communication habits that directly correlate to skilled reading. In a...
ESL, inclusion/ exclusion, Unit Plans
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Dance
Senior

Turning the Page - Redefine, Rewind & Redesign: An Embodied Dance History Unit
ATC 3M, ATC 4M
Gr. 11 Dance, Gr. 12 Dance
In Canada, the prevalence of Western forms of concert dance (classical forms such as ballet and early modern dance) in public schools and private dance studios are the result of a dance history formed by European settlers and rooted in...
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Drama
Intermediate
Senior

Turning the Page - What's the Word?
ADA3M, ADA4M
Dramatic Arts Gr. 11 and 12
Students will create new vocabulary words and explore ways to use them through role-playing and improvisation. Students will create and perform scenes/scenarios that deal with issues of equity, social justice and inclusion. Students...
inclusion/ exclusion, Lesson Plans
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Drama
Intermediate

Turning the Page - Words Can Break Barriers
This unit will provide students with an opportunity to widen their vocabulary and awareness of physical, social, and societal barriers around them. Students will engage in a variety of Drama and Language structures and activities as they...
critical literacy, Unit Plans
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Drama
Senior

Verbatim Theatre
ADA4M
Grade 12 Drama, College/University Prep
This unit explores a genre of theatre that has gained importance and popularity in recent theatre history. Verbatim Theatre involves the creation of theatre that is drawn from word-for-word interviews with real people. It has been used to...
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Drama
Primary
Junior
Intermediate
Senior

Vocal Warm-ups / Échauffements vocaux
The warm-ups explained in this resource are related to preparing the voice safely. These exercises focus on building articulation, tone, pitch, pacing, and vocal projection, helping students develop vocal control for effective performance.
Games / Warm-ups, French
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Drama
Primary
Junior
Intermediate
Senior

Voices in the Head // Les voix dans la tête
This resource offers instructional strategies and applications for the dramatic convention, voices in the head, that is used to deepen students' understanding of a conflict or a difficult choice facing a character in the drama. //...
French, Teacher Learning
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Dance
Primary
Junior
Intermediate
Senior

Wave // La vague
This resource offers instructional strategies and applications for the wave, a movement improvisation. // Cette ressource offre une définition et une méthode pédagogique sur la vague, une improvisation gestuelle.
French, Teacher Learning
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Dance
Drama
Junior

What Should I Do?
Grade 4 Dance, Drama and Critical Literacy
In this unit, a fictional context invites students to encounter multiple perspectives related to a complex community issue. In role, the students are presented with a proposal to build a community centre that is likely to affect the...
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Drama
Senior

What's My Motivation? Peeling the Layers of the Text Onion
This unit introduces students to strategies and techniques designed to interpret text. They will be introduced to motivated action and the stylistic elements, themes, symbols, language and characters of a representative play from the late...
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