Dramatic play can take place anywhere children are – it really doesn’t take a special area or equipment. Dramatic play involves children who take on a role and relate to other people a…
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An A4 sheet featuring an eye chart. This resource is perfect for encouraging role-play scenarios involving the opticians or doctors surgery.
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Dramatic play can take place anywhere children are – it really doesn’t take a special area or equipment. Dramatic play involves children who take on a role and relate to other people a…
Acting Improvisation Role Play - Drama or Theater Scenarios and Scene Starters: Elevate your drama class with this creative resource designed to inspire improvisation and role-play scenes! Included are 50 improvisation topic cards. Students simply choose a card and use it to initiate a scene with a partner or small group. This drama resource offers a variety of prompts that offer just enough information for inspiration, leaving room for student creativity. Download the preview for a glimpse into the scenarios included and kickstart a dynamic and engaging experience in your drama class today. Included in this Acting Improvisation Role Play Resource: ➡️ 50 Drama Scene Starter Cards: These drama role-play scene cards can easily be printed and shared with students in your drama class to inspire creative and outside-the-box dramatic scenes. The topics provide just the right amount of inspiration while also leaving room for student creativity. Simply print on cardstock or laminate the cards, and you have a tool to use in your theater class over and over again! Sample Prompts Included in this Acting Improvisation Role Play Resource: Below are a few sample prompts to give you a better idea of the types of role-play prompts included: You open your front door to a persistent vacuum salesman. A child attempts to sneak into the kitchen to eat the last cookie. Two bank robbers have fled the scene and are on the run. A hairdresser accidentally dyes someone's hair green. A child is very nervous about visiting the dentist for the first time. What Are Teachers Saying About This Acting Improvisation Role Play Resource: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ We used these in my drama club. The students loved acting these role play card out. It was a quick fun activity for us to do. It created lots of smiles and laughs. We throughly enjoyed this resource. I highly recommend it for any drama class as an ice breaker. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students loved using these prompts in both our improv and playwriting units. They give just enough information and inspiration to get students started without locking them in to just one path to tell the story. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students love these role play scenarios. They said that this is their favourite Drama activity and they have certainly developed their skills. Fantastic resource! Looking for more drama resources? Click below! >>> Drama Terms Interactive Escape Challenge >>> History of Theater Lesson >>> Mime and Pantomime Lesson © Presto Plans ➡️ Want 10 free ELA resources sent to your inbox? Click here! ⭐️ Follow Presto Plans on TpT to see what's new and on sale.
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Creative Writing Worksheet – Expressing Emotions (PDF) Emotions dictate our actions more than we would like to admit, and for the writer, they’re an integral part of creating character motivation. Of course, they’re also very important for hooking the reader, and while you can certainly play it by ear, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised…
How to name a character: delve into this first step in the character creation process and find out where to look, what to look for, and what to avoid when naming the characters in your novel!
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This past Wednesday, I shared a wonderful Roll-a-Dice Freebie for writing story starters (Check it the CF2 post here if you missed it!), but there's more where that came from! Check out my blog post from yesterday Roll-a-Dice Literacy Fun which features two new freebies using dice. Additional resources are provided for those interested in incorporating dice games into your classrooms through this post! Visit my blog post or access the freebies directly but clicking the pictures or links below! Roll-an-Emotion Fluency Activity (Google Doc) Here's a great tool for picking reading partners or reading buddies in the classroom! It's "clock partners" with a twist! Roll-a-Reading Partner (TpT) Happy Back-to-School Teaching!
Get a collection of fun drama games and exercises. These make for great warm-ups or activities to practice improv. A great way to have fun while developing
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Fiction is full of jealous, cruel and otherwise flawed characters. This character flaw list explores common personality weaknesses. Use it for inspiration.
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Drama games & activities in your classroom or drama club as warm-ups, ice breakers, or as fun activities to start any class!
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When we create fictional characters, we want them to be realistic. Use this resource to explore 123 ideas for character flaws.
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Creative Writing Worksheet – Make Trouble (PDF) The trouble with writers is that they’re sometimes too nice to their characters. Unfortunately, while this is admirable practice in real life, it hardly makes for a good story. Use this worksheet to brainstorm ways to make the worst case scenario even worse. It’s character-building stuff! Tweet:“Make trouble…
Even if we don’t want to admit it, we read stories to learn about the world by living through another person’s experience of change. A story that sticks with us is ones with a strong point—a specific message about how the world works.
If we don't want to write characters who are too perfect, we have to layer in a few flaws. That means we might be writing characters who are "broken" in some way, and we don't want to get the details wrong. Luckily, I know just who can help us get this right.
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She came to you in a dream, at the dinner table, in the shower. What did she tell you? Did she speak at all? Did her looks explain everything? The majority of writers understand they cannot completely control their characters. Why? When you create them they become their own person. The writer is just there to report the journey through the conflicts they made. (If you need help with conflicts, start here: Conflict and Character.) I've read from several reference books on how I go about creating characters. It's not so much that they help me come up with one, they help me dimensionalize (oh yes, new word) them into helping me create plot. Once you understand your characters it's easier to make the plot-plot-plotting as you type-type-type your pages. Your characters are the ones that move plot as they deal with the conflicts you've put in their way. Does that make sense? Comment if it does or doesn't. To figure out your character the best way is something we all know and love, but somehow we get the descriptors prioritized differently, perhaps wrongly. What do I mean: the color of your character's hair does not matter when it comes to the reader (unless it's purple, or it's an indicator into something else in the story, or both). The reader cares about caring: the heart, the mind, the soul. Create your character from the inside-out, and let the outside reflect inside. Designing Your Character Establish Goals and Motivations Prioritize Traits Believe The Lie Cue their "Aha" Moment Flesh Out the Face (and body...and hair) Here is my character template sheet I customized on Scrivener. If you don't have this application, I wish I could throw it into your computer right now, so you could get to work on it right away. But I can only send you this handy link from Literature & Latte. (It's a free trial; please take advantage! I adore Scrivener. It makes outlining and note-keeping so much easier. I'm an index-card kinda gal and this app really works for me. ) BRIE'S BODACIOUS CHARACTER TEMPLATE: Look at all that craziness. Okay. It's not totally crazy. Actually makes some sense. Are you ready for the explanations? Here we go: Establish Goals and Motivations This is foremost because this is your plot-driver. Your character is nothing without desire, and your book is plotless if the character isn't wanting enough to be motivated. Establish a concrete goal and figure out why they are motivated to achieve it. A motivation might be an over-protective family and the goal might be freedom to be their own person. I have a character who comes from an abusive household. She wants to be independent and do her own thing but her family restricts her. The motivation might also be the conflict. It depends and that's another subject. Focus! Prioritize Traits You don't want an info-dump to make the reader groan and toss your book aside (or over the fence...cough). Put your character in pieces throughout your story. What trait do you want to show first? Choose wisely. The first trait is the one that'll stick to them the entire book. Like a first impression. This trait will be in their first scene. Are they a womanizer? Lazy? Hot-headed? Family-oriented? You choose. And then choose another. Remember Shrek? Your characters are onions. Make them sweet, sharp, or purple (purple poppin' everywhere today!), but peel the layers one by one, and give your reader a taste. Just a taste. Believe The Lie The Lie is their belief. What do they strongly believe in? What are they convinced about that is their truth? Possible Lies: all women are manipulative See-You-Next-Tuesdays You can only rely on yourself money brings happiness people are too stupid to live independently killing murderers is not murder, it's justice K.M. Weiland wrote an excellent post on Believing the Lie and it's where I got all the questions for it: The Lie Your Character Believes Cue their "Aha" Moment Characters will grow. They will change. Their belief system may be shattered. An "aha" is the moment of realization. Their Lie will be put in the spotlight and crushed before the character's eyes. Truth rises from The Lie's remains and the character sees everything, from their first scene up to the "Aha" moment. What has changed? Why? How? If your character has no "aha" moment, there is no growth, and the reader will be left empty, and your book flying over their fence. Flesh Out the Face (and body...and hair) I said the outside should reflect the inside. Now is the time to look at their personality through their goals and motivators, their traits, and beliefs, and consider their physical appearance. A lot of factors come into play here: their location, origin, discipline, vocation, positive or negative traits, finances, etc.. You're not going to have a soldier with long hair and a beard (unless they're special ops) but maybe they have a tattoo that indicates something more. Or a woman who is very uptight and doesn't have a single wrinkle in her wardrobe. Maybe you have a rebel teen who can't afford a professional haircut, so they cut and dye their own hair against their parent's wishes. Physical descriptions are lesser priority than what will help move your story. There are a couple exceptions that I use, but they don't overrule the goals and motivations which push the characters through conflict. Ultimately, it's up to you. I have given you my template in hopes of inspiring you to build your characters with depth. My character sheet is from months of adding and subtracting what I need to make it work for me. As you can see, I have "Food" and "Song" as a helper. I'm a former chef who worked in the Navy for eight years. The culinary world is a part of me and I know how it feeds into people's lives (you see what I did there?). Favorite food might not be priority, but it gives me perspective on my character. Kinda like going out on a date with them outside the book and just seeing them as a person. That's this blog, by the way: Dating Your Characters. Their food doesn't even have to show up in the book; it's just something to help dimensionalize them. Just like the Song, which is my interpretation of their theme. When I need some motivation to write and need to get into a character's head, I have a playlist. But their theme song generalizes that playlist. For instance, my boy Caelum's song is "King Me" by Lamb of God. I listen to it if I need to and feel the anger, the frustration, the driving factor of him. That's why it's in the template. Add Song to your template, if it helps you. What would you add to your template? Would you take away anything? Please comment below and tell me if this helped or didn't help. I'd love to hear from you. I'm also on Facebook if you wanna stalk me there. Say Hi! Hi!
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This is part 2 in a series called The Epic Guide to Character Creation . In this part I will show you different heroine archetypes. I will provide examples of characters from both literature and movies/TV-series to provide you with an overall understanding of fictional characters.
Character flaws depend on point of view & the interaction between AWARENESS & ATTENTION. Allow Lady Writer & Sir George to demonstrate...
