George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl

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George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald DahlRoald Dahl is incredibly popular with children of all ages and most students will have read or be familiar with Georges Marvellous Medicine. This scheme is aimed at KS3, most suited to Years 7 and 8, and uses both on and off text work based on the novel as the stimulus for some exciting exploration into character, improvisation, devising and ensemble work. Number of lessons: 7

to incorporate masks

equivalent to two GCSE’s at grades A*–C

A Practical Exploration of Physical Comedy by John Wright (Nick Hern Books 2006)

For those new to the syllabus

It is not necessary for students to read the texts

the two plays in Unit 1 must now form a contrast

In terms of theatre skills

To create an improvisation from a stimulus

All you need is a sound source like a CD player to play music and sound and an amplifier to amplify the output (if you use a portable CD player you don’t even need an amp)

groups or class write words inside the outline to give details of the character

To continue developing students’ mime ability

as well as in some of the detail

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