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LESSON PLAN FORMAT – THEATRE CONTENT AREA
WINTHROP UNIVERSITY
Lesson Focus: Creating a Ground Plan
Educator: Courtney Williams
Date: 11/2/12
Target Group/Level: 8th grade Approximate Length: 50 minutes
Materials/Resources: Set design PowerPoint, grid paper
National/State Curriculum Standards:
III. Designing and Technical Theatre. The student will design a variety of technical elements for the
theatre.
T8-3.2. Identify tools and materials for basic technical design and construction of scenery, lighting, sound,
costumes, and makeup
Vocabulary:
ground plan – a bird's eye view of the stage
set rendering – a drawing of the set from the point of view of the audience
Pre-Assessment: Students will have previously learned about and discussed scenic design in class.
Connection to Previous Learning: Students are learning about scenic design in a technical theatre unit.
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to… create a ground plan.
Instructional procedures for each objective:
1. Have students come in, grab their journals, and write the answer to the following prompt: What is the
role of the scenic designer? Discuss what the students wrote.
2. Go over the PowerPoint with the students. Make sure they understand what ground plans and
renderings are, and the differences between the two. Use the grid slide to do a ground plan of the pictured
room with the students step by step.
3. Tell students that we are now going to play the Ground Plan Game, but it's very important that we stay
quiet, because we'll be leaving the classroom. Give students one minute to look around the room and try
to memorize every detail. When the minute is up, make sure each student has a pencil, take students out
into the hall, hand out the graph paper, and ask them to draw a ground plan for the classroom.
4. After giving students a few minutes, let them back into the classroom for thirty seconds to see what they
missed the first time around. Then, take them back out into the hall to add to their ground plans as needed
and finish them up.
5. If students need to, let them into the classroom one more time. Collect the ground plans when they are
done and bring the students back into the classroom
6. Discuss with the students about what they forgot the first time around. Ask students to look around the
room and see if there are even more details that they forgot. Discuss how important attention to detail is
as a set designer, and how you should be sure to include the necessary details in your ground plan. Ask
students how they might change the layout of the classroom if they were to turn it into a set.
Closure: See number 6 of the lesson plan procedure.
Assessment of each Objective:
Formative- Students will turn in their classroom ground plans. Check for accuracy and completeness.