Just in time for Christmas!
This drama curriculum is designed as a group project using A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens with full playscript examples from Chapters 1 and 5, opportunities to practice, and additional resources to write an entire play. (student edition available for students)
6th grade - adults (12 lessons)
LESSON 1 – Read a Story
LESSON 2 – Important Story Elements
LESSON 3 – Plot Diagram (Dig Deeper)
LESSON 4 – Watch the Movie Version
LESSON 5 – From Chapter to Playscript
LESSON 6 – Rough Draft
LESSON 7 – Edit
LESSON 8 – Put it in Playscript Format
LESSON 9 – Let’s Write a Whole Play
LESSON 10 – Edit the Entire Playscript
LESSON 11 – Put the Entire Playscript in the Proper Format
LESSON 12 – Add a Cover Page and List of Characters
AND ACTION…
Copyright 2023 Danielle Wallace. All Rights Reserved.
(an excerpt from pg. 1)
This drama curriculum is designed for a group of students and is written to the teacher so you can walk alongside your students as they go through the process of writing a playscript. The first and fifth chapters (or Staves as Charles Dickens calls them) are written as a playscript for you to use as an example and to get the ideas flowing. The students will work on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Staves so they can focus on the scenes with the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, to write the remaining portion of the script. You can break students up into smaller groups or have them work together one Stave at a time.
You and your student have permission to use the portions of the scripts given as examples in this edition for your own plays. Please keep in mind that this curriculum is protected under copyright and should not be shared with others, so when leading a group of students, please have each student purchase their own curriculum. Please send students to homeschooldrama.com so they can purchase and download their own copy. Thank you!
Hope you enjoy watching your students be inspired to create.
Danielle at homeschooldrama.com
*the cover on the PDF is white instead of purple to save on ink 😉
Be sure to have each student in the class purchase a copy of this curriculum to follow along with the instructions, have access to the playscript examples, use the special pages created for students in the student edition, and to be prepared to collaborate with a team to write a play for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Not ready to write a play and just want a script to get started today? Based on Charles Dickens' book, A Christmas Carol, this 5-act play includes the original language and characters that we have all come to love including the beloved Tiny Tim. Travel through the past, present and future with Ebenezer Scrooge and the three spirits of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come.