Dramallama U › Ready-made course
Planning your spring semester? This course is ready now
A ready-made Theatre 1 curriculum for high school
Your first-year students walk in as strangers and leave as an ensemble that can perform Shakespeare. This five-unit course gets them there one step at a time, with every lesson, printable and standard already written.
Need a principal’s OK? Email your principal a ready-made request with the price, standards and purchase order paperwork.
- 5 units
- 37 lessons
- 9–12 grades
- $199 a year, all 33 units
The course, in order
Teach the units in this order, or pull any unit on its own. Every unit comes with step-by-step lessons, printables and a culminating project.
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1
Ensemble, SEL & Wellness
Curtains Up on a New School Year!
Building Trust, Community, and Connection
Build trust and community before anyone performs.
Grades 6–126 lessons
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2
Acting & Performance
An Actor’s Toolbox
Essential Skills for Strong Character Development
Voice, body and character: the core acting skills.
Grades 9–129 lessons
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3
Playwriting & Devising
Our Monologues, Ourselves
Stories That Shape Us
Students write and perform monologues drawn from their own lives.
Grades 9–126 lessons
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4
Acting & Performance
Surfing Shakespeare
A Simple Guide to Playful, Powerful Performance
Shakespeare made playful, so the language stops being scary.
Grades 9–128 lessons
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5
Acting & Performance
Unlocking the Script
How Actors, Directors and Designers Turn Words into Worlds
Script analysis the way actors, directors and designers do it.
Grades 9–128 lessons
Why teachers use this course
- A full first semester, in order, with nothing to build from scratch
- Students perform their own work and a classic before the semester ends
- Standards listed lesson by lesson for your administrator
One price for this course and 28 more units
Dramallama U
$199/year
This course plus every other Dramallama U unit and Director’s Guide.
33 units and 235 lessons for $199. That’s about $6 a unit, or 85 cents a lesson.
Best value
Llama Plan
$799/year
Dramallama U plus every full-length and one-act play, with unlimited performances. Teach the unit in fall, perform the play in spring.
Need approval? Email your principal a ready-made request.
Preview any unit free before you buy. No auto-renew. Pay by card, check or purchase order. How purchase orders work · District pricing · W-9 · Sole source letter
