Grade 9 Term 3 Worksheet Date: _______________

1.
Brainstorm
your topic

2.
5.
Develop
Write a
unique
dialogue
characters

4.
3.
Break plot
Develop
Acts and
your plot
Scenes

Topics for your improvised play

Your play must be funny! Use the tips on humour when developing your play
and your characters
Choose any one of the prompts below and develop a script with acts and
scenes
1. "You're a group of superheroes with completely useless superpowers. How do you save the
day?"
2. "You're students at a wacky school where every subject is taught by animals. Show us a
day in the life of these unconventional classes."
3. "You're contestants on a reality show called 'Extreme Pizza Delivery.' What outrageous
obstacles do you encounter while delivering pizzas?"
4. "You're stranded on a desert island with only one prop: a magical talking coconut. How do
you use its advice to survive and entertain yourselves?"
5. "You're competing in a dance-off where the only dance move allowed is 'The Funky
Chicken.' Show us your best variations and improvisations!"
6. "You're famous characters from fairy tales who have formed a band. What kind of music do
you play, and what hilarious adventures do you encounter on tour?"
7. "You're detectives solving a crime in a town inhabited entirely by cats. How do you
interrogate suspects and uncover the truth?"
8. "You're contestants on a cooking show with a twist. Instead of traditional ingredients, you
must use bizarre items like rubber ducks and socks. Can you create a mouth-watering
dish?"
9."You're time travellers who accidentally swap bodies with historical figures.
How do you adapt to your new identities and navigate through funny situations in different time
periods?"
Grade 9 Drama Term 3 Basic elements of comedy Worksheet Date: _____________
Comedy is a genre of literature and performance that aims to amuse and entertain the audience
through humor. It utilizes various elements to achieve its comedic effects. Here are some key
elements of comedy and their purposes:
1. Humor: Humor is at the core of comedy. It involves creating situations, dialogue, or actions
that evoke laughter or amusement in the audience. Humor can take many forms, such as
wordplay, puns, irony, satire, slapstick, wit, and comedic timing.
2. Timing: Timing is crucial in comedy. It involves delivering jokes or funny moments with
precision to maximize their comedic impact. Proper timing can enhance the surprise, build
anticipation, and create comedic rhythm.
3. Exaggeration: Exaggeration involves magnifying or overstating certain aspects of
characters, situations, or actions for comedic effect. It can heighten the absurdity, create
caricatures, and highlight the humorous aspects of a scene.
4. Incongruity: Incongruity refers to creating unexpected or contradictory elements within a
comedic context. It involves combining unrelated or mismatched ideas, characters, or
situations to create surprise and laughter. Incongruity often relies on unexpected twists,
reversals, or contrasts.
5. Wordplay: Wordplay encompasses various linguistic techniques, such as puns, double
entendre, witty wordplay, and clever use of language. It relies on playing with words, their
meanings, sounds, or structures to generate comedic effects.
6. Satire: Satire is a form of comedy that uses humor, irony, or sarcasm to critique and expose
flaws, vices, or societal issues. It often employs exaggeration, parody, and caricature to
satirize individuals, institutions, or cultural phenomena.
7. Slapstick: Slapstick comedy involves physical humor, often characterized by exaggerated,
boisterous, or clumsy actions. It includes physical gags, falls, accidents, and humorous
gestures that rely on visual or kinetic comedy.
8. Misunderstandings and Mistaken Identities: Comedy often revolves around
misunderstandings, miscommunications, and mistaken identities. These elements create
confusion, chaos, and humorous complications, leading to comedic situations and laughter.
9. Social Commentary: Comedy can serve as a vehicle for social commentary and critique.
Through humor, it can shed light on societal norms, conventions, and absurdities. It
challenges the status quo, provokes thought, and encourages reflection.
10. Resolution and Happy Endings: Comedy traditionally concludes with a resolution that brings
harmony, reconciliation, and a sense of order. Happy endings are common in comedy,
providing closure and leaving the audience in a positive and uplifted state.
The purpose of these comedic elements is to entertain, bring joy, provide laughter, and offer a
temporary escape from everyday life. Comedy can also serve as a tool for social commentary,
cultural critique, and promoting empathy through humor. It has the power to connect people, break
tension, and offer a light-hearted perspective on human experiences.
Drama Warm up Exercises
Slow Diaphragmatic Breathing
1. Sit comfortably in a chair with your feet on the floor. You can lie down if you wish.
2. Fold your hands on your belly.
3. Breathe in slowly and calmly. Fill up the belly with a normal breath. Try not to
breathe in too heavily. The hands should move up when you breathe in, as if you are
filling up a balloon. Avoid lifting the shoulders as you inhale; rather, breathe into the
stomach.
4. Breathe out slowly to the count of “5.” Try to slow down the rate of the exhale.
After the exhale, hold for 2-3 seconds before inhaling again.
5. Work to continue to slow down the pace of the breath.
6 .Practice this for about 10 minutes.
7. This works best if you practice this two times each day for 10 minutes each time.
Try to find a regular time to practice this each day.
LEMON/LION
To stretch out your face for clearer expressions
Stretching your face helps warm up your facial muscles and relieve the tension that
you may not realize is in your face. Actors use various face stretches to prepare for
the wide range of facial expressions they take on during performances.
DIRECTIONS
Scrunch your face up tight, as if you have just bitten down on a super-sour lemon,
for 3 seconds.
Engage all parts of your face — eyes, nose, cheeks, and mouth.
Open your face wide, as if you were a roaring lion, for 3 seconds.
Keep your eyes wide open and try sticking out your tongue.
Switch between “lemon” face and “lion” face 5 times. Make your lemon face tighter
and your lion face wider each time.
QUESTION: What other words could prompt you to stretch your face?
DEEP BREATH
To warm up your breathing for relaxation and control Deep breathing is essential when preparing
for a rehearsal or performance. It helps actors decrease stress and increase calm, especially
when a big performance is about to take place!
DIRECTIONS
Stand in Actor’s Neutral — with your feet flat on the ground, standing tall, with a slight bend in your
knees, and your hands resting at your sides.
Visualize your favorite color, and take a 3-second deep breath in through your nose, inhaling that
color.
Hold your breath for 2 seconds.
Exhale gently and quietly through your mouth for 3 seconds, imagining the air that is leaving is a
grayish color, filled with any negative thoughts you may have.
Take 3-5 deep cleansing breaths of your favorite color and exhale any negative thoughts.
QUESTIONS: Which color did you choose? How did you feel after this exercise?

TONGUE TWISTERS
To warm up your lips and tongue for speaking Tongue twisters help strengthen and stretch the
muscles used for speaking, which helps performers pronounce, enunciate, and project.
DIRECTIONS
Read each phrase quietly to yourself.
Speak each phrase out loud slowly and clearly, stressing the consonants in each word.
PHRASES - Speak each phrase quickly and clearly three times without stopping.
“Red wrist watch”
“Unique New York”
“Red leather, yellow leather”
“Toy boat, toy boat”
“English horseradish sauce”
“Brush each pretzel”
“A wet red work rag”
“Free flea spray”
“Where are all our oars?”
QUESTION: Which were the hardest phrases to say clearly and need more practice?
EXTENSIONS
1) Practice each phrase so many times you can say them clearly and quickly without thinking.
2) Come up with your own tongue twisters and add them to the list.
Grade 9 Drama Creating and devloping a rounded character Date:
Worksheet 5
Use the propmpts to create and develop a character that would fit into your script.

Name, gender,
age, relationship
status

Background:
Where grew up,
parents, siblings

Strengths,
weaknesses

Fears

Dreams

Beliefs

Likes

Dislikes

Personality type
(archetype)

Movement
characteristics

Talking
characteristics

Act in social
situations

Act in crises
Grade 9 Term 3 Drama Worksheet Date:_________________
Stage Conventions

Title: Making Friends with a Bully

Target Audience: _____________
Drama Grade 9 Term 3 Worksheet 3 Date: __________________

How to analyse a play

Act and Scene Plot Character Language and

Structure: Progression: Analysis: Verse:

Pay attention to the

How many acts and Examine the main Study the main language and verse
scenes are there? plotlines and subplots characters structure used in the
play.

Analyze each act's Identify the exposition, Analyze the use of

rising action, climax, Analyze their
purpose and how the metaphors,
falling action, and motivations, conflicts,
scenes within them soliloquies, and other
resolution to character arcs, and
contribute to the rhetorical devices
understand how the relationships with
overall narrative and employed by the
story unfolds. other characters.
thematic characters.
development.

Consider how conflicts Consider how their

are introduced, actions drive the plot Consider the kind of
developed, and and contribute to the language used?
resolved. play's themes.
Themes and Dramatic Performance Contextual
Motifs: Techniques: Considerations: Analysis:

Identify the major Study the use of Reflect on how the

themes explored in the Explore the historical
dramatic irony, structure and style of
play, such as justice, and cultural context in
foreshadowing, and the play might impact
mercy, love, and which the play was
dramatic tension to its performance on
prejudice written.
enhance the play's stage
impact.

Observe recurring Consider the

motifs, such as bonds possibilities for Consider how societal
and contracts, caskets, interpreting the norms, religious
Identify the
and the concept of exposition, rising characters, staging tensions, bias, racism
appearance versus action, climax, falling choices, and the impact etc. may influence the
reality. action, and resolution of the play's language play's structure and
to understand how and themes on the style.
the story unfolds. audience.
Analyze how these
themes and motifs are
developed and Examine the use of
connected throughout Consider how their
comic relief and how it actions drive the plot
the play. contributes to the and contribute to the
overall tone and play's themes.
structure of the play.
Grade 9 Drama Creating and devloping a rounded character Date:
Worksheet 5
Use the propmpts to create and develop a character that would fit into your script.

Name, gender,
age, relationship
status

Background:
Where grew up,
parents, siblings

Strengths,
weaknesses

Fears

Dreams

Beliefs

Likes

Dislikes
Personality type
(archetype)

Movement
characteristics

Talking
characteristics

Act in social
situations

Act in crises

Additional N