It’s amazing how much inspiration you can produce with just a couple of props.
This time around it was two flat-style palm trees that were left in our drama area after a storeroom cleanup.
We moved them onto the stage and improvised a series of ‘Pirate Island’ adventures, with an emphasis on ‘beginning / middle / end’ structure, or for the older students, ‘orientation / complication / resolution’.
Here are the assessment task sheets. I laminated mine so I can reuse them next year!
Desert Pirate Treasure Drama Assessment