The Theaters of the World

4th Grade Geography: from Culture to Culture
Section 2- Chapter 5 (Greek Educational System)

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 As a continuance to this lesson and the cognitive themes it introduces, the Educator can expand and instead of Important Buildings of civilizations, to give the children to explore and present the theaters according Theater Buildings. 

Instead of the monuments of Mexico and the Sphinx in Egypt, it could be the Ancient Greek Theater (Epidaurus), the Roman Theater-Odeon (Herodion), The Elizabethan Theater (England-Globe Theater, the Theater of Central Europe (Italian Stage), the Traditional Japanese Theater Kabuki.

Already the book proposes the Opera House of Sidney, Australia.

The level of difficulty is not higher from the proposed monuments of other civilizations and in doing so, we achieve an approach to theater.

Materials for the Lesson

Images from the internet. There are numerous.
Teachers Bell.

1st Phase

 The teacher separates the children into 5 groups and gives each group an image from the 5 theaters described below. He/she asks them to describe the characteristics of each.

Ancient Greek Theater (Epidaurus)
Roman Theater-Odeon (Herodion)
Theater (England-Globe Theater)
Theater of Central Europe (Italian Stage)
Traditional Japanese Theater Kabuki.

2nd Phase

The 5 images are placed on the black-board.
The teacher holds 5 according figures with costumes that belong in the Eras of the theater buildings.

A figure with a tunic (Ancient Greece)
A figure with a Roman toga (Ancient Roman Theater)
An English Costume of the 16th Century (Elizabethian theater)
A French Classic Costume (Center European theater)                                                                                  A Japanese Costume  (Cabuki)

https://gr.pinterest.com/pin/316307573810486946/
https://gr.pinterest.com/pin/373446994075636390/

https://dj-renda.blogspot.bg/2016/09/kabuki-seni-pertunjukan-teater.html

(and many more)

3rd Phase

 The teacher places a costume in each of the theater images on the board. He/she puts the wrong one, on purpose and asks the students if they seem right.  So, we create a game until the students find the correct Costume for the according Theater space. The teacher will have many opportunities to present information regarding each Country and civilization, having theater as a starting point.

4th Phase  

(as a continuance)

The teacher has chosen a small theater scene with 10 lines from each Theater genre.
He/she gives it to the students to read.
We would suggest scenes from the following writers:

Euripides (Ancient Greek)
https://www.mikrosapoplous.gr/t2t.htm           Plautus or Menander (Ancient Roman)
Shakespeare (Elizabethan)                                            Moliere (Center European-French)
For kabuki there are no texts so, the students could see a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q1MPwD7zCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oidE2SSDczw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9QHX0LTL0w