Drama Lesson Second Class - Scoil na gCaiíní Castleblayney October 2022

Here is a short video summerizing the lesson :

Lesson Activities

• Warm Up Game - King of the Jungle - Voice warm up
• Theme - Irish Myths and Legends - The Children of Lir Story

Children memorise an array of animal movements and noises in sequence.

Explain the background of this famous old Irish Myth.

Read the story of ‘The children of Lir’. Discuss characters, plots and location.

Select the children to act out the main characters - get into fictional character roles and dramatise the story (Queen , King Lir, the 4 children, the swans &  the priest, 

Divide the story into scenes - the castle, the lake, the monastery 

Rest of the children carry out freeze frames of the location, the lake for example in the story.

Children conclude the drama.

Assessment

T.A. G

T - Tell us what you did in the lesson - children discuss the warm up game for confidence

A -   children asked the  fictional characters in the story questions

G - gave compliments and suggestions to the group like good use of voice, emotions etc.

Ways to improve the drama…