Drama
Senior 		ADD4M - Grade 12 Drama Production, College/University Preparation
Grade 12 Drama Production, Focus Course Profile
This course is excellent preparation for students interested in the production of theatre. Students will explore skills and concepts required for theatre production. 		Course Profiles, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools, 2009 Curriculum Support
Dance
Senior 		ATH4M - Grade 12 History Development: Global Perspectives, College/University
Grade 12 History Development - Focus Course Profile
This course focuses on an exploration of global dance cultures with an awareness of educational strategies and frameworks that address issues of the environment, equity, and First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples. Social, political, economic, and cultural perspectives will be applied to the core course content to inform students as to how these elements have influenced dance history. 		Course Profiles, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools, 2009 Curriculum Support

Drama
Senior 		ADA1O - Grade 9 Drama
Grade 9 Dramatic Arts Culminating Activity: The Choice Anthology
This unit is most suitable as a culminating activity project. Students prepare a 7-10 minute anthology to depict a major choice within a teenager's life, exploring the moments leading up to the choice and possible outcomes to this choice. 		Unit Plans, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools

Drama
Intermediate 		ADA1O - Grade 9 Drama
Greek Theatre and The Myth of Persephone Drama Structure
Students learn about the history of Greek theatre, with specific focus on the conventions of the Greek chorus, ritual and choral speaking. Using many of these techniques, students explore the story of Persephone, who was kidnapped from her parents Zeus and Demeter by Hades and taken to the Underworld to be his wife. 		Unit Plans, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools
Dance
Intermediate 		Grade 8 Dance
Group Creative Movement to Music - Demonstration Classroom Video
Students create movement pieces to discuss global issues. 		Videos

Dance
Junior 		HELP... I'm a Faculty of Education Student and I have to Teach Dance!
This unit was created to help facilitate the introduction of dance in the classroom. The lessons found within can be used in succession, or can be used individually to meet the Ontario dance curriculum expectations. 		Unit Plans, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools

Dance
Junior, Primary 		Helpful Teaching Suggestions for Dance
An article with numerous suggestions for teaching dance. 		Articles and Lists
Drama
Intermediate 		ADA1O - Grade 9 Dramatic Arts
Heroes
In this unit, students learn the role of the hero by telling the stories of heroes from various cultures and time periods (and specifically on Joan of Arc) using dramatic conventions such as tableau, role play and scene work. 		Unit Plans, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools, 2009 Curriculum Support
Dance
Senior 		ATR3M - Grade 11 Hip Hop and Urban Dance College/University Preparation
Hip Hop and Urban Dance Focus Course Profile
This course aims to broaden students' understanding of Hip Hop culture beyond the commercialized representations prevalent in the media today. Emphasis will be placed on developing students' awareness of themselves as an urban dancer in the community, as collaborator within a team of artists and as participant in the creation of his/her physical environment. 		Course Profiles, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools, 2009 Curriculum Support
Dance
Senior 		ATH4M - Grade 12 History Development: Global Perspectives, College/University Preparation
History Development: Global Perspectives - Focus Course Profile
This course focuses on an exploration of global dance cultures with an awareness of educational strategies and frameworks that address issues of the environment, equity, and First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples. Social, political, economic, and cultural perspectives will be applied to the core course content to inform students as to how these elements have influenced dance history. 		Course Profiles, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools, 2009 Curriculum Support
Drama
Senior, Intermediate, Junior, Primary 		Hot Seating
This resource offers instructional strategies, definitions and curriculum links to the dramatic convention, Hot Seating, in which students allow themselves to be questioned by the rest of the group. The questioners may speak as themselves or in role. 		Lesson Plans
Drama
Senior 		ADA3M - Grade 11 Drama
Identity Self and Others
This unit focuses on exploring and deepening understanding of identity, both of self and others, through the use of a variety of dramatic forms and conventions. Critical learning moves from using First Nations, Metis and Inuit texts into student-developed scripts exploring identity. 		Unit Plans, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools, 2009 Curriculum Support
Drama
Junior 		Grade 4 Drama and Financial Literacy
If I Had $100...
Students will learn the difference between wants and needs and the importance of setting priorities in terms of how money is spent. In groups, students will be given $100 to “spend” and will have to account for exactly how it is spent. Students will reflect on their choices and deal with unexpected life circumstances that will be thrown their way, which will affect their budgeting decisions. 		Lesson Plans, Financial Literacy, 2009 Curriculum Support
Drama
Senior 		ADG3O - Grade 11 Improvisation
Improvisation - Demonstration Classroom Video
Students in a Grade 11 Improvisation class participate in activities and drills in this video. 		Videos
Drama
Senior 		ADG3O - Grade 11 Improvisation, Open
Improvisation - Focus Course Profile
This course provides an in-depth exploration of improvisation as a vehicle for drama development, theatrical presentation and actor training. Students apply their skills in the development of comic and serious improvised scenes. 		Course Profiles, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools, 2009 Curriculum Support
Drama
Intermediate, Senior 		Improvisation Fundamentals
This resource offers instructional strategies and applications for improvisational drama. 		Lesson Plans
Drama / Dance
Junior 		Grade 5 Dance, Drama and Critical LIteracy
In or Out
This unit explores the theme of exclusion and inclusion through a series of lessons that encourages students to consider these ideas in creative ways. The unit concludes with a culminating task that addresses how inclusive they are as individuals and as a community and how they can encourage themselves and others to see through a lens of inclusion. 		Unit Plans, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools, 2009 Curriculum Support, Critical Literacy

Drama
Junior 		In the Souls of the People - Neelands Workshop - Oct. 2011
Jonothan Neelands presented a workshop for members of CODE based on The Grapes of Wrath. This resource contains a list of activities and supplemental source material. 		Workshop Notes
Dance
Senior 		ATI3M - Grade 11 Indian/South-Central Asian Dance, College/University
Indian/South-Central Asian Dance - Focus Course Profile
This course will focus on the dances from South Asia. The countries of this vast region include, but are not entirely limited to: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. 		Course Profiles, Lesson Plans, 2009 Curriculum Support
Dance
Intermediate 		Inspiration for Creating Dance
This is unit 2 of a sample intermediate dance course revised from the 1999 Dance Course Profile. Students continue to develop technique in this unit and are also guided through the process of creating dance from a source. Students compose dance in small groups utilizing a variety of sources/stimuli, explore options in accompaniment and incorporate elements of stagecraft to present a completed work. 		Unit Plans, Lesson Plans, Assessment Tools, 2009 Curriculum Support