Dance
Senior 		Grade 11 Dance
Interpreting Modern Dance Vocabulary - Demonstration Classroom Video
Students create presentations based on the ideas of swing, suspend, fall and oppositional pull in this video. 		Videos
Dance
Primary 		Grade 1 and 2 Dance
Interpreting Poetry - Demonstration Classroom Video
Students use dance to enhance their study of poetry in this video. 		Videos
Dance
Primary 		Grade 1 Dance
Introducing Creative Dance
Touching on nearly every expectation in the grade 1 dance curriculum, students explore locomotor (traveling) and non-locomotor (on-the-spot) movement, the creation of a variety of body shapes, growing and shrinking movements, and using dance to express emotion. 		Unit Plans, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools, 2009 Curriculum Support
Dance
Intermediate 		Introduction to Jazz
In this unit, students will be introduced to the basic movement skills in Jazz Dance. They will identify its terminology and will explain the historical and cultural significance. 		Unit Plans, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools, 2009 Curriculum Support
Dance
Primary 		Grade 2 Dance
Investigating Body and Space
Beginning with an exploration of everyday gestures and pathways in space, students have the opportunity in this unit to create dances that begin simply and become more complex as the unit progresses. 		Unit Plans, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools, 2009 Curriculum Support
Dance / Drama
Primary 		Grade 2 Dance, Drama, and Critical Literacy
Jack and the Giant
This unit is designed to help students gain an understanding of authors' intention and bias and how authors create a bias as they introduce and build stories around their characters. Through storytelling, drama and dance, students will explore fairy tale characters and story lines that portray villains and heroes. 		Unit Plans, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools, 2009 Curriculum Support, Critical Literacy

Drama / Dance
Senior, Intermediate 		January 2011 - Lighting Design Workshop
These workshop notes and appendices are based on the lighting design workshop presented at Rosedale Heights School of the Arts in January 2011. 		Workshop Notes
Dance
Senior 		ATJ3M - Grade 11 Jazz Dance, College/University Preparation
Jazz Dance - Focus Course Profile
This focus course aims to lead dance students through the evolution of Jazz, beginning with African Roots, Swing and culminating in jazz on the stage and screen. 		Course Profiles, Lesson Plans, 2009 Curriculum Support

Drama
Intermediate 		Grade 10 Drama
Learning from the Past: Exploring Melodrama and Commedia Dell'Arte
This resource contains two mini units, one on Melodrama and one on Commedia Dell'Arte. The Commedia mini-unit contains a culminating task for both units. 		Unit Plans, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools

Dance
Intermediate, Junior 		Legend or Ceremonial Dances through Storytelling
Students create fictional stories, and then accompanying movement sequences that tell the story of a past civilization’s history: its creation, its life and times, and the circumstances causing its extinction. 		Lesson Plans
Drama
Intermediate 		Less is More
Students will explore and make meaning of text. They will experiment with subtext, learn how to decode the dramatic conventions/clues in scripts, develop short scripts. 		Unit Plans, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools

Drama
Intermediate, Junior 		Mad Sad Glad
This game demonstrates how to use levels on the stage to help with blocking/stage direction can introduce the importance of concentration in role and risk-taking and will also help students develop their sense of what’s appropriate and what’s not in improvisation. 		Lesson Plans
Drama
Intermediate 		Make It Real... Improvising in Role
This unit is intended as an introductory exploration of improvising in role. 		Unit Plans, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools

Dance
Intermediate, Senior 		Making a Great Beginning - Opening Day Activities for Drama Classes
These strategies set a positive class atmosphere during the opening weeks of a Dramatic Arts course. These games and activities can be embedded in any drama structure or lesson as a way to introduce a topic, story or script or to further develop and energize the work being done. 		Lesson Plans
Drama
Senior 		Making Meaningful Monologues
This unit is intended as an introductory “springboard” for text exploration or specifically monologue exploration 		Unit Plans, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools
Drama
Senior 		Making Time for Creativity and Communication: Drama Position Paper
Drama is a critical subject area that provides multiple tools and skills to help students develop imagination, creativity, emotional literacy, communication skills, problem solving, and critical thinking skills. All of these are essential skills for the 21st century learner. This article argues that there is a powerful place for drama in faculties of education and teacher training. 		Articles and Lists
Drama
Intermediate 		Grade 9 Drama
Masks and Myths - Demonstration Classroom Video
Students write and perform original myths in this video. 		Videos
Drama
Junior 		Grade 4 Drama
Medieval Quest
In this unit, students will gain an understanding of Medieval Times through process drama. Students will participate in process drama and role play to explore elements of tension, relationship, role, place and time to deepen understanding of Medieval society, power and character relationships. Students will assume roles and in turn apply their own experiences and perception of power to the drama. 		Unit Plans, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools, 2009 Curriculum Support
Dance
Senior 		ATW3M - Grade 11 Mediterranean/Middle Eastern Dance, College/University Preparation
Mediterranean/Middle Eastern Dance - Focus Course Profile
This course will focus on the dances from the Mediterranean/Middle Eastern part of the world. 		Course Profiles, Lesson Plans, 2009 Curriculum Support

Drama
Intermediate, Junior 		Mime and Physical Theatre: Three Variations
There are many different aspects of physical theatre that can be taught as independent activities or as part of an ongoing project. 		Lesson Plans