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LESSON PLAN #1 - Intro To The Irish Dialect

This lesson plan introduces 11th grade theatre students to performing with an Irish dialect over 70 minutes. Students will warm up, learn the fundamental pronunciation differences of the Irish dialect, and practice applying these to content. Formative assessments include students reciting lines from a poem using the Irish dialect, where the teacher can provide feedback on correctly applying pronunciation fundamentals like sound changes and vocal placement. The goal is for students to vocally execute and explore the Irish dialect.

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LESSON PLAN #1 - Intro To The Irish Dialect

This lesson plan introduces 11th grade theatre students to performing with an Irish dialect over 70 minutes. Students will warm up, learn the fundamental pronunciation differences of the Irish dialect, and practice applying these to content. Formative assessments include students reciting lines from a poem using the Irish dialect, where the teacher can provide feedback on correctly applying pronunciation fundamentals like sound changes and vocal placement. The goal is for students to vocally execute and explore the Irish dialect.

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LESSON PLAN #1 - Intro to the Irish Dialect

Subject Area & Grade Level Theatre- Voice & Speech 3 - 11th Grade
Time 70 minutes

Central Focus

Performing with a dialect.

State Adopted Arts Standards

CA Arts Standards for Publics Schools, Pre-K thru 12th Grade


Prof.TH:Cr3b Explore physical, vocal and physiological choices to develop a performance
that is believable, authentic, and relevant to a drama/theatre work.

Acc.TH:Pr5a Refine a range of acting skills to build a believable and sustainable


drama/theatre performance.

Learning Objectives

● SWBAT vocally execute the pronunciation fundamentals of the Irish dialect.


● SWBAT explore inflection and apply the Irish dialect fundamentals to content.
● SWBAT identify Irish pronunciation/sound changes in the written IPA format.

Prior Knowledge/Understandings

Students will utilize prior understanding/knowledge of:


- IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols
- Voice & Speech 1 & 2 fundamentals
- Vocal anatomy, diaphragmatic breathing techniques, projection techniques,
breath support
- Proper articulation & diction
- Identification of articulators, plosives, fricatives
- Listening to previous dialects and identifying differences in the dialect versus
their natural speaking voice
- Knowledge of region/culture

Academic Language Demands/Vocabulary

Perform, Create, Analyze


Vocabulary: Articulators, plosives, fricatives, diaphragm, vocal placement

Materials/Resources

- Irish sound samples


- Irish Dublin School Radio Show Demo
- Rocky Road to Dublin by The High Kings
- Clip from Normal People (Hulu)
- Dublin Irish Dialect Notes (handout)
- Irish Stretch Warm Up Song
- The Voice by Shel Silverstein (poem)

INSTRUCTIONAL SEQUENCE AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES (copy & paste sections below
for each learning activity)

Intro to Irish - What do you See/Hear?


Type: Hooks/Set

Teacher will play a few sound & video samples of Irish speakers and ask students "What
sound changes do you hear?" "Where is the vocal placement?" "What do you notice about the
speech pattern and inflection?"

Students answer verbally or take notes in their theatre notebook.

Differentiated Instruction/Planned Supports:


All materials/resources are up on the Google Classroom for absent students to review.
For the hard of hearing, clips are provided with closed captioning.

Warm Up - 12345/Stretch Song


Type: Guided Practice

Teacher will start with a warm up, getting students on their feet, adjusting their posture/center
of gravity for optimal breath support. Rolling out the shoulders, bending the knees, twisting at
the waist, deep breaths into the diaphragm, stretch the soft palette. Teacher will ask the
students to listen and repeat the vocal placement exercise "1,2,3,4,5", identifying and
demonstrating the difference between Standard American accent vocal placement and Irish.
Teacher will ask each student to individually repeat "1,2,3,4,5" until each student has gone.

Teacher will sing the Irish Stretch Song line by line, with students repeating after each line.
Then, all will perform the Irish Stretch Song with the teacher.

Differentiated Instruction/Planned Supports:


For students with disabilities, they may stay seated and adjust their spine and diaphragm as
much as they are able.

Intro to the Irish dialect


Type: Guided Practice

Teacher will seat students after the warm up and review the Irish Dialect fundamentals from
the Dialect Notes, along with the accompanying demonstration video. Students will listen and
repeat Teacher pronunciation of each sound change. Teacher will check for understanding
and mastery by asking Students to repeat one word from each sound change.
Differentiated Instruction/Planned Supports:
All materials/resources are up on the Google Classroom for absent students to review.
For the hard of hearing, clips are provided with closed captioning.
For non-COVID times, Irish Dialect Notes video is optional.

ASSESSMENTS & FEEDBACK

Formative Assessments & Plan for Feedback:

The Voice Performance


Students will recite two lines of the poem "The Voice" by Shel Silverstein.

The poem will be written on the whiteboard in IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)
with the Irish sound changes.

Looking for Students to apply the Irish sound changes, upward lilt or same note vocal
inflection, forward vocal placement and fluidity/ease of speech pattern to their two
lines of the poem.

Instructor will offer dialect vocal placement, sound change or inflection


redirects/corrections.

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