Lesson Plan for Grade 9

I. Topic/Subject: Drama and Theater

a. Time Allotment: 1 hour 30 Minutes
II. Objectives:
a. General Objectives: The learner demonstrates communicative competence
through his/her understanding of British- American Literature.
b. Specific Objective: At the end of the lesson the learners will be able to:
i. Define a drama or theater in their own understanding;
ii. Differentiates the elements of drama and theater; and
iii. Compose and improve their own play through the use of the rubrics.
III. Textbook pages (A Journey Through Anglo-American Literature, p. 427.)
IV. Materials Needed
a. PowerPoint
b. Laptop
A. Preliminaries
a. Introduction: Greetings to the students
b. Feelings Check: Asking the learners how are they feeling today.
c. Reminder: The teacher will ask the learners to arrange their chairs and pick up
pieces of trash, making sure that there are no trashes around them.
d. Checking of Attendance: The teacher will check the learner’s attendance.
e. Motivation: Video Clip Presentation ((107) Frozen On Broadway: "Love is an Open
Door" (Live @ Good Morning America) - YouTube)
B. Lesson Proper
a. Discussion about the Drama and Theater
i. What is Drama?
1. The word drama comes from the Greek Word meaning “Action”
drama is written to be performed by actors and watched by an
audience
2. Drama is a type of literature that is primarily written to be
performed for an audience. When reading a play, it is important to
keep certain features of drama in mind.
ii. What is Theater?
1. Theater is the house, space or place where drama operates within.
2. Theater is where stage business takes place, where discipline,
protocols, staging, crew, cast and creativity come together to
produce an end product, that being a production or a given genre. It
is where the audience is pivotal to the genre, because without an
audience you will just have drama. The audience brings the drama
alive.
3. Theater is also considered the genre spectacle that an audience
sees. An audience could see a play, Musical show, Poetry or Opera
as part of a theatrical experience.
iii. Elements of Drama and Theater.
1. Aristotle considered these six things to be essential to good drama.
a. • Plot: This is what happens in the play. Plot refers to the
action; the basic storyline of the play.
b. • Theme: While plot refers to the action of the play, theme
refers to the meaning of the play. Theme is the main idea or
lesson to be learned from the play. In some cases, the theme
of a play is obvious; other times it is quite subtle.
c. • Characters: Characters are the people (sometimes animals
or ideas) portrayed by the actors in the play. It is the
characters who move the action, or plot, of the play
forward.
d. • Dialogue: This refers to the words written by the
playwright and spoken by the characters in the play. The
dialogue helps move the action of the play along.
e. • Music/Rhythm: While music is often featured in drama, in
this case Aristotle was referring to the rhythm of the actors'
voices as they speak.
f. • Spectacle: This refers to the visual elements of a play:
sets, costumes, special effects, etc. Spectacle is
everything that the audience sees as they watch the play
2. Modern Theater
a. In the modern theater, this list has changed slightly,
although you will notice that many of the elements remain
the same. The list of essential elements in modern theater is
as follows:
i. Character
ii. Plot
iii. Theme
iv. Dialogue
v. Convention
vi. Genre
vii. Audience
b. Convention: These are the techniques and methods used by
the playwright and director to create the desired stylistic
effect
c. Genre: Genre refers to the type of play. Some examples of
different genres include comedy, tragedy, mystery and
historical play.
d. Audience: This is the group of people who watch the play.
Many playwrights and actors consider the audience to be
the most important element of drama, as all of the effort put
 in to writing and producing a play is for the enjoyment of
the audience.
3. How To Discern a Good Drama or Theater?
a. Voice – refers to how we can use our voice to create
different characters, sounds and meanings: Pitch; Pace;
Pause; Volume and Emphasis
b. Audience – refers to a group of individuals gathered
together at a certain time and place, The ones who expect
that actors will know their lines, that choreography will be
performed without error.
c. Blocking – a term used in theatre to describe the location of
actors on the stage and the movement that they make.
d. Script/Purpose – it contains information about how the
actor is to carry himself on stage, speak, dress etc.
e. Memorization/Improvisation – it refers to how characters
able to fully memorize or improvise their own lines.
f. Facial Expression/Body Language – this refers to the
smiling, frowning, raising eyebrows, squinting in the facial
expression; crossing legs, placing hands on hips, for body
movements.
b. Summary/ Conclusion
i. After the discussion, the teacher will be going to ask the learners these
following questions:
1. In your own understanding what is the difference between Drama
and Theater? and why?
2. In your own opinion does Drama and Theater can be separated or
not? Why?
c. Evaluation: By Pair Activity
i. Each pair will be tasked to watched a video presentation ( One More Chance
The Musical - an excerpt (UPUAN) (youtube.com) and critique the video that
they have watched, using the rubrics that will be presented in the
presentation.
1. Directions: Watch the video carefully and use the rubrics down
bellow and critique the video and share your comment/insight to
the class and how to improve or make changes to make the play
appealing.
Rubrics for Drama Performance or Theater Play

Criteria 4 3 2 1 TOTAL

Voice was loud and Student spoke clearly Voice and language Could not

clear; words were but it was difficult to was not very clear; understand what
VOICE easily understood understand some of could’ve been much was being said due

the script; could’ve louder. to unclear and low

been louder. speech.

Needed more

Audience felt like Was aware and well- audience awareness No audience
AUDIENCE part of the show. connected to the and connection. awareness or

audience. connection at all.

Good use of stage Almost used entire Could have used Needed more

and movement— stage—turned away more of the stage; blocking—always

BLOCKING did not turn back to from audience only must concentrate on face audience and

audience once or twice. facing forward. use the stage!

Enticing vivid detail Script/dialogue was Some detail used in Script/dialogue

SCRIPT/
used in well-written; script/dialogue; contained no
PURPOSE script/dialogue;
considerable detail needed more of a purpose and very
evident reasons for
(When applicable) with good purpose. purpose. little detail.
the performance.

Script was fully Script was almost fully Script was partially Script was not at all

MEMORIZATION/ memorized; memorized-some memorized; student memorized; no

IMPROVISATION student improvised improv used to make did not attempt improvisation used.

(When applicable) in place of lines. up for missed lines. improvisation.

 FACIAL Great use of Contained some facial Needed more facial Contained little to no

EXPRESSION/ gestures, facial expression, gestures & expressions facial expression,

BODY expression and body movement. gestures & gesture or

LANGUAGE body movement! movement. movement.

Committed, Semi-committed, Almost committed, No commitment,

cooperated & concentrated & cooperative & cooperation or

OVERALL concentrated- cooperative- concentrated- concentration

WOW! GREAT! NOT TOO MORE

BAD… REHEARSAL!

References:

Elements of drama/theatre. (n.d.). https://www.eluprogram.com/Elements_Of_Drama.pdf

Elements of drama and theater. (n.d.-a).

http://staffnew.uny.ac.id/upload/132326890/pendidikan/Elements of Drama and
Theater.pdf

Team, N. (2024, February 28). Writing a play script: Everything you need to know.
https://www.nfi.edu/writing-a-play-script/

Coddington, M. (2022, February 8). What is the difference between drama and theater?.
The Theaternook. https://theaternook.com/what-is-the-difference-between-drama-and-
theater/