Drama Lessons for the Primary School Year: Calendar Based Learning Activities - Paperback

by John Doona (Author)

Drama Lessons for the Primary School Year will enable teachers to develop their expertise and confidence in order to create active and imaginative schemes of drama for the classroom. It offers a programme of ready-to-run workshops linked to specific dates in the calendar and specific themes into which teachers can readily dip on a regular basis. The first section uncovers the author's own creative processes in generating drama experience and offers it to the reader in a set of simple, practical steps. The rest of the book is a wide-ranging compendium of schemes of work attached to specific calendar dates throughout the school year. These detailed drama lesson plans can be run as 'one-off' workshops or can be used by teachers as a basis for creating their own drama-led curriculum experiences. The book offers a practical structure to support these new creative planning tasks.

Author Biography

John Doona is a qualified advanced skills teacher with a wide experience of secondary and primary drama practice, a visiting lecturer in drama at the University of Chester, and a professional writer; with dramatic work broadcast on Radio 4 and performed by the Royal Court Young People's Theatre and elsewhere. His previous publications with Routledge include A Practical Guide to Shakespeare for the Primary School.