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Here is a rehearsal checklist that shows how I incorporate teacher check in signatures and work with the assessment rubric.

This is a checklist for planning a partner scene (planned and rehearsed, but built using improvisation). Students were already familiar with relationship, setting, objective / tactics.

In this scene assignment, 2 actors are working with 1 director in groups of 3. Actors are working on adding level changes to each page in their script. Before this rehearsal, they played the warm up game where no one can be at the same level at the same time (if someone stands, the person already standing has to come up with a reason to sit / lay down, etc.)

This is something that I use with my Acting I class, and can be easily used or adapted for any group. Once students learn the sequence, it can be the protocol to starting class everyday. The best thing about it is it becomes student led.

This builds off the previous checklist I posted. Now that they've planned their scene, they can now practice running through it with a rehearsal checklist.

Here is a sample of a rehearsal schedule for my production team on a full length play.

Rubric that accompanies Guidelines for Play Reviews handout

Here is a play analysis assignment that encourages students to deepen their thinking within each of the four levels of questions. You can use it for all theatre students with simple edits. Level One may be enough for beginners, for example.

Here are the handouts that are referenced in my previously shared Stage Makeup Unit lessons.

I use this during my pantomime unit.

Here is a theatre safety test all my Technical Theatre students must pass at 90% or better in order to fully participate in class.

This is a very simple rubric, but it shows students their target, and gives them a tangible goal.

This is a lesson for a Breath and Voice unit that includes a bit of vocal anatomy.

At the end of my Actor Movement Unit students create a Silent Movie Scene as their performance assessment.

This is a lesson at the end of a unit on Breath and Voice. Students will practice different vocal characteristics by performing a neutral scene, then apply those skills to creating a radio commercial. A rubric for the radio commercial assignment can be found in the Assessment section of the Member Share Files.

This is a lesson for a beginning theatre class on basic vocabulary.

Third lesson of the unit.

Fifth lesson of the unit. I spend quite a bit of time doing demos on volunteers for this one, whereas for the other ones I do partial demos to get things started for them.

This unit takes students though shading, basic corrective, and old age makeup.

Here is the second lesson in my Stage Makeup unit.