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    This ELA lesson plan focuses on alternative methods of storytelling. Students will reflect on different ways to tell a story by collaborating to develop an alternative presentation. They will also create a rough draft of a musical mime to demonstrate communicating meaning without words. The lesson involves students working in groups to create tableaux vivants retelling fairytales and developing individual musical mimes based on song lyrics. The goal is for students to learn about and practice different forms of narrative presentation.

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    This ELA lesson plan focuses on alternative methods of storytelling. Students will reflect on different ways to tell a story by collaborating to develop an alternative presentation. They will also create a rough draft of a musical mime to demonstrate communicating meaning without words. The lesson involves students working in groups to create tableaux vivants retelling fairytales and developing individual musical mimes based on song lyrics. The goal is for students to learn about and practice different forms of narrative presentation.

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    School: Westmount High School Course: ELA

    Date: April 9th, 2018 Cycle/Year: Sec. V


    Duration: 150 minutes (2:00 - 3:30) Location: Drama room
    Learning 1. By the end of todays class, students will have the opportunity to
    Opportunities reflect on the various ways to tell a story by working collaborative
    to develop an alternative form of storytelling.
    2. By the end of todays class, students will be able to demonstrate
    their ability to communicate meaning without words by creating a
    rough draft of their musical mime
    Big Idea / Unit Alternative methods to storytelling
    ELA Speaking: fun attendance, discussion/sharing through think-pair-share
    Competencies Reading: lyrics to Old Dive
    Listening: lyrics to Old Dive, taking and applying peer feedback
    Production/writing: collaborative group story presentation, individualize
    rough draft of musical mime performance
    Prof. Comp. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12

    Student Skills Teamwork, personal reflection, reading comprehension, making inferen

    Materials Personal journals, Short story handout, Smart Board, headphones,


    personal electronic device, guided notes
    Time Plan
    Attendance, Announcements, and Daily Journal
    2:00 - 2:05 1. Students arrive and pick up file folders
    2:05 - 2:12 2. Fun attendance: Students choose topic
    2:12 - 2:20 3. Daily Journal: Friday free choice!

    Hook
    2:20 - 2:30 Game: Is it a story if it has no words?
    Teacher performs a brief pantomime. What did you see?
    What did you understand? Why? How were elements of t
    story conveyed? What constitutes a story?
    Using padlet, students generate a list of the components o
    a story. Discuss alternate forms of storytelling-generate a
    list.

    2:30 - 3:00 Learning Activity(ies) and/or Tasks
    1. Tableau Vivant (collaborative activity)
    Each group of students is given a fairytale.
    In buzz groups of four, students discuss what they believe
    be the most significant moment of the scene
    Students create a series of three tableaux (beginning,
    middle, end) that tells the story
    Students present Tableau Vivant to the class
    Debrief as a class
    a) In creating a tableau the participants are putting themselves into a
    scene as characters with thoughts and feelings. They must ask themsel
    b) Where and how shall I stand?
    c) What do I want the audience to think?
    d) What facial expression shall I hold?
    e) Where shall I place myself in relation to others?
    f) What are the alternatives?

    3:00-3:30 2. Musical mime (individual/collaborative activity)
    Teacher explains the art of musical mime
    As a class, students watch a teacher-created musical mim
    Using the lyrics from a song of their own choosing (and
    keeping in mind the list created on padlet) students build a
    musical mime that tells the story of their selected song.
    They should do a close reading for one verse and one
    chorus of the song (between 1-2 minutes).
    Students use Genius https://genius.com/ to support their
    work

    Students pair with a partner and present musical mime
    Students provide feedback to their peers; make adjustmen
    3:30-3:45 to hone mime.
    Students film each others musical mime and upload to
    teachers Youtube channel

    Mini film festival: Watching musical mime performances a
    discussion
    3:45-4:20
    Exit Card and Dismissal: Post-it Note
    Students list three things they learned about alternative
    4:20 - 4:30 storytelling.

    Assessment Formatives: Assignment 5, Think-Pair-Share, Post-it Notes


    Differentiated This lesson plan takes into account various learning styles; there are bo
    Learning auditory and visual instructions, allowing the students an opportunity to
    best process the information suited to their ability.
    Working in small groups allows students to formulate and articulate the
    thoughts without the added pressure of speaking in front of the entire
    class. (L2 learners)
    Making inferences requires students to pull on their prior knowledge, th
    valuing their knowledge and empowering students to learn. There is not
    one right answer, encouraging students to take risks.

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