Drama and Music Lesson | Create Your Own Musical

Do you have the next Stephen Sondheim in your classroom? Teach your students the process of creating a musical of their own! This low prep lesson gives your students an opportunity to work cooperatively and become playwrights and lyricists by adapting a portion of a children's book. It is most successful with students in sixth through eighth grade, especially students new to theater class or in a Language Arts class.

Please note: To teach this lesson, you will need to check your school library or purchase several children's books. I used a Berenstain Bears book for the example. The class could decide upon a particular book they'd like to use. When writing lyrics, students could use a favorite song of their choice with new lyrics to coincide with the book.

Note: I created a digital version of this lesson for you which is included in the product! I split up the students' pages and placed answer boxes on several pages. I hope this helps you.

Updated April 3, 2022.

This product includes:

• A letter to the teacher
• Warm up---MY version of this popular exercise
• Teacher's script--what I say and how I say it!
• Procedure for the entire lesson
• Outline assignment
• Example of outline
• Detailed assignment sheet for students
• Storyboard template
• Rubric--FULLY EDITABLE
• Exit slips-good for daily use
• Links
• Sources

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