Students will create a tableau of the story "The Lion and the Mouse" to familiarize themselves with the story and identify their favorite part. They will then write an opinion piece about their favorite part of the story. The lesson integrates theater, language arts, and visual arts standards and uses a creative process approach including imagining, exploring, creating, sharing, and reflecting. Students work collaboratively to create tableaus, give each other feedback, and refine their work before writing about their favorite part of the story.

1. Theater Integrated
Lesson
Tamra Butler-Rice/First Grade
Turner Elementary School
2015

2. Integrated Outcome
Students will create a tableau
of the story “The Lion and the
Mouse” to become familiar
with the story and decide their
favorite part of the story.
After creating their tableau they
will write an opinion piece about
their favorite part of the story.
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3. ELA Standards
RL 1.1 Ask and answer questions about key
details in a text
W1.1 Write opinion pieces in which they
introduce the topic or name the book, state
an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion,
and provide some sense of closure.

4. VAPA Standards

5. Authentic Performance-Based
Assessment
• Students will create a
tableau to show their
favorite part of the
story.
• Students will write an
opinion piece
explaining their
tableau and why it is
their favorite part of
the story.

6. Text
• “The Lion and the Mouse”

7. The Creative Process
Imagine
Examine
Perceive
Explore
Experiment
Develop Craft
Create
Share
Reflect
Assess
Revise
THE
CREATIVE
PROCESS

8. Creative Process: Share
Students work in
collaborative groups to
create their tableau.
Students perform CPR –
giving feed back and
making modifications.
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9. Creative Process:
Imagine/Examine/Perceive
Students use pictures
in the story to create
tableaus.
Students use
pair/share to
collaborate prior to
creating tableau and
while refining it.
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10. Creative Process:
Explore/Experience/Develop
Craft
Students are encouraged
and asked to create
different parts of the story
in different ways before
choosing their final
product.
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11. Creative Process:
Reflect/Assess/Revise
CPR is used to
provide feed back
to students from
peers.
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12. Creative Process:
Create
Students work with
their partner to
create a tableau of
the different parts
of the story and
ultimately their
favorite part of the
story.
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13. Rubric

14. Student Reflection
“It was fun because it
helped me understand
the story.”
“It made me happy to
learn more about the
story.”
It was fun working with
my partner!”
“I learned to act with my
body and my face.”

15. Teacher Reflection
Students were engaged and
became quite good at
creating different tableaus.
Students were able to identify
their favorite part of the
story easily because they
were so familiar with the
story due to their
discussions while creating
the different tableaus.
We had a lot of fun!

17. This lesson was the result of the
work done at the Arts Every Day
workshop offered through the
Fresno County Office of
Education.
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