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32 complete lessons | Two full courses | Teacher guides and student books | Grades 6 to 8 | Ages 11 to 14 | Two free preview lessons includedMost students aged 11 to 14 can stand up and speak. Very few can stand up, control how they sound and look, construct a three-point argument, make it persuasive, adapt it for their audience, build it into a complete multi-point case, defend that case under live challenge, frame it strategically before the first argument is delivered, and close it to show wh

16 complete lessons | Teacher guides and student books | Approximately 740 minutes of instruction | Grades 6 to 8 | Ages 11 to 14 Three strong arguments are not a case. A case is three arguments that all pull in the same direction, selected deliberately, sequenced for effect, connected by a single driving idea, defended under live challenge, opened to set the terms of the debate, and closed to show what survived. Case Building teaches all of that. Across 16 lessons and four units, students aged

Most students aged 11 to 14 can stand up and speak. Very few can stand up, control how they sound and look, construct a three-point argument, adapt it for their audience, deploy a rhetorical technique, and then defend it when someone pushes back. Speaking Foundations: Lower Secondary is the complete course that takes students from the first to the second. All 16 lessons. Four levels. One coherent arc. The course is built on a single principle: every skill taught is the foundation for the next on

14 complete lessons | Teacher guides and student process journals | Approximately 840 minutes of instruction | Grades 6 to 8 | Ages 11 to 14 | No drama experience requiredDevising is the most demanding thing a drama student does. It requires them to generate material from nothing, make creative decisions they can defend, collaborate without defaulting to the loudest voice, and produce a performed piece that did not exist before they made it. Most students at Grades 6 to 8 have never done any of

Sixteen lessons. Four levels. One complete course that takes students from standing up and saying their name to disagreeing with someone's idea kindly, clearly, and under pressure. Speaking Foundations (Primary Edition) is a full public speaking course for Grades 3 - 6 with no prior experience required. Every lesson assumes a beginner. Every skill is taught before it's expected. And every lesson is self-contained, so whether you're teaching the full sequence or picking the lessons your class nee

Complete Lesson Plans + Student Materials | Ages 9–11 | Grades 4–6 | 10 x 45 Minutes | No Drama Experience RequiredMost drama resources give you activities. This series gives you a framework for understanding what drama is. Ten lessons. Ten conventions. A deliberately sequenced arc that begins with the most familiar forms, narration and chorus, and builds toward the most demanding and most ancient: masks. By the end, students can name ten conventions, use them deliberately in performance and dev

Most drama resources give you activities. This series gives you a toolkit. Ten lessons. Ten techniques. A deliberately sequenced arc that moves from the most visual and spatial techniques to the most interior and complex. By the end, students are creating performances where levels, proxemics, pace, pause, physicality, vocal variation, direct address, thought tracking, hot seating, and freeze frame are working together as an integrated craft rather than a collection of separate tricks. Every less

Most drama resources give you activities. This series gives you a curriculum. Ten lessons. Ten drama features. A deliberately sequenced arc that starts with the most physical and immediate elements and builds toward the most complex. By the end, students are creating original performances where voice, movement, space, symbol, contrast, mood, tension, focus, and time are all working together in service of character. They can name what they are doing and explain why it works. Every lesson follows

5 complete lessons | Teacher guides and student books | Approximately 300 minutes of instruction plus independent activity | Grades 5 to 8 | Ages 10 to 14Before any student sets foot on stage, they need to be able to read what they are about to perform. Not scan it. Not skim the dialogue and skip the directions. Read it: the whole page, all three components, with the understanding that every part of a script carries information that shapes how the story gets told. Unit One builds that capacity a

6 complete lessons | Teacher guides | Approximately 180 minutes of instruction plus extensions | No prep required | No drama experience neededBefore students can use their voices in drama, or play a character, or tell a story with their bodies, they need a physical foundation. They need to know how to stop on a signal and mean it. How to take up space and shrink into it. How to move like something other than themselves. How to hold still while someone looks at them. How to follow another person'

4 complete lessons | Teacher guides and student books | 45 to 50 minutes each | No prior debate experience requiredThree strong arguments are not a case. A case is three arguments that all pull in the same direction, selected deliberately, sequenced for effect, and connected by a single driving idea. That is the conceptual shift Unit 1 teaches. Students who arrive knowing how to construct a strong individual CEI argument leave Unit 1 able to build a complete case: one they can map, justify, and

Level 1 of Speaking Foundations: Lower Secondary takes students from managing speaking anxiety to completing their first unscripted two-minute talk under real time pressure. Four lessons. One complete arc. The level opens by addressing what most speaking courses ignore: the physiology of nerves. Students learn why anxiety and excitement feel the same, how to reframe the sensations they experience before speaking, and how to build a personal pre-speech routine that works for them specifically. Th

Total Run time: approximately 90–120 minutesOne of the oldest stories ever told, brought to life for your classroom or stage. This complete dramatic adaptation of Homer's Odyssey follows the full arc of the epic: from Athena pressing Zeus to let Odysseus come home, through the wanderings, the monsters, the temptations, and the long wait on Ithaca, to one of the most emotionally powerful homecomings in all of literature. Witty, moving, genuinely theatrical, and built for flexible classroom use, t

4 complete lessons | Teacher guides and student books | Approximately 190 minutes of instruction | Grades 6 to 8 | Ages 11 to 14Students leaving Unit 3 of Case Building can build a fully developed case and manage it through live challenges. They can triage, execute Answer and Return, and concede strategically without losing the thread. What they cannot yet do is set the terms of the debate before the first argument begins, close the case in a way that shows what survived, or manage their own cas

complete lessons | Teacher guides and student books | Approximately 185 minutes of instruction | Grades 6 to 8 | Ages 11 to 14A case that collapses under the first challenge was never really a case. It was a planned speech. Unit 3 is where students find that out, and where they build what they need to do better. Students leaving Unit 2 can build a fully developed case. The through line runs through every impact statement. The signposting is directional. The weighting is explicit. What the case

4 complete lessons | Teacher guides and student books | Approximately 185 minutes of instruction | Grades 6 to 8 | Ages 11 to 14Students leaving Unit 1 of Case Building can construct a case. They have a thesis, a through line, three selected and sequenced CEI points, and a deliberate order. What they cannot yet do is make those three points feel like a unified whole. The through line appears at the opening and disappears. The signposting tells the audience where they are but not where the argume

Ideas are worth defending. Standing Your Ground teaches students aged 11 to 14 how to do it with precision, without attacking the person they are disagreeing with, and without abandoning their position the moment it is challenged. Level 4 is the final level of Speaking Foundations: Lower Secondary. It is where the course becomes a debate. The level opens with a problem most speaking courses ignore. Students arrive knowing how to construct arguments. What they cannot yet do is hear one. Critical

Persuasion is not instinct. It is a set of techniques that can be named, practised, and deployed deliberately. Level 3 of Speaking Foundations: Lower Secondary gives students aged 11 to 14 the full toolkit: Aristotle's three appeals, systematic audience analysis, the rhetorical power of specific language, and a culminating four-minute persuasive speech that puts every tool to work. The level opens with ethos, pathos, and logos. Students meet the three appeals through advertising analysis, build

Level 2 of Speaking Foundations: Lower Secondary takes students from having a controlled speaking presence to having a controlled argument. Four lessons. One complete structural arc. The level opens by addressing the most fundamental confusion in student speaking: the difference between a topic and a thesis. Students who treat these as the same thing spend three minutes talking about something without arguing anything. Lesson 2.1 fixes that. The rapid-fire topic-versus-thesis drill makes the dis

This bundle brings together two resources in the Macbeth programme: the Macbeth Activity Bank and the Shakespeare in Depth: Macbeth Scene by Scene Companion. The Activity Bank is for what happens in the room. Seventy-two structured non-writing activities across all 18 lessons: discussion structures, drama conventions, sorting and ranking tasks, and quick-response openers and closers. Everything is ready to run with a teacher setup and student instructions already written. The Scene Companion is