The Weirdest Dream Game Show!

Lesson Overview

This unit is  a fun and activity-packed venture into sensory-inspired writing and  public speaking , culminating in the class production of THE WEIRDEST DREAM GAMESHOW!   By finishing the unit as  a PERFORMANCE EVENT, there is excellent motivation to: 
-review and physically explore  the 5 senses
-,generate imaginative adjectives and verbs, and compose a short essay with them
-learn and practice public speaking skills
-learn and practice audience etiquette

After a classroom discussion of gameshows and their FORMATS, a  full study of all 5 senses will be conducted, with creative taste, touch, sound, etc. participatory "lab studies."  THIS STUDY will be followed by completing a creative writing map, on which students will list a smell, taste, sight, sound, and touch, with several enticingly descriptive adjectives about each.

 After all this preparation, students will write an exciting WEIRDEST DREAM monologue, which they will practice, adding gestures, facial expressions, vocal expression, etc.

Videos on public speaking will be watched, and tongue twisters practiced as a class; also proper speaking posture will be modeled by each student .  

Students in small groups will practice their monologues and "coach" each other [with positive suggestions] before the presentation of the game show.

Proper audience etiquette will be studied and practiced before the game show as a class.  

The culmination of the project will be a "classroom staging" of THE WEIRDEST DREAM GAME SHOW!"