Drama Vocabulary Introduction & Theater Escape Room Script Reading Activity
Drama Vocabulary Introduction & Theater Escape Room Script Reading Activity: This drama reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of important drama terms! The detailed presentation introduces a variety of drama terms with clear examples, ensuring student understanding from the start. The highlight of the resource is the engaging escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must attempt to enter a wizard's cabin. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a drama-related challenge to unlock the solution and enter the cabin!
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Included in This Drama Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:
➡️ Drama Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the drama lesson and activity with instructional slides on a variety of drama terms. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.
➡️ Enter the Wizard's Cabin Narrative Back Story: Next, students are ready to put what they have learned into action! They will begin the challenge by reading a short backstory that sets up the escape room challenge. Students encounter the ghostly spirit of Merlin the wizard while strolling through the woods, leading them on a chase through the forest until they reach Merlin's Cabin; finding the door locked, they discover a stack of papers left by Merlin containing a challenge to solve, offering the possibility of gaining entry into the mysterious cabin.
➡️ Drama Terms Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style drama terms challenge, students must read an original short story and read a drama script, answering questions related to the drama terms they learned about to reveal a hidden passphrase needed to enter the wizard's cabin.
Drama Terms Included In This Resource:
- Playwright
- Dialogue
Stage Directions - Genres (Comedy, Tragedy)
- Acts & Scenes
- Script
- Protagonist
- Antagonist
- Tragic Flaw
- Soliloquy
- Monologue
- Aside
How This Drama Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:
- Use the PowerPoint presentation to guide you through each element of the drama lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about a variety of drama terms. It will also introduce the story and challenge, and review the answers.
- Read the narrative story as a class to hook students and introduce the drama activity challenge.
- Once you have taught students about the different drama terms and read the story, students are ready to try the reading challenge!
- When students find the answer, you can share the conclusion slides to wrap up the story.
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