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Part of Unit 4: Commedia Dell'Arte Unit

Culminating Activity

by Drama Teacher Academy

Students will take everything they’ve learned and put together a commedia troupe, create a commedia character complete with lazzi, and present a scene based on one of the three main commedia themes.
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# Theatre History # theatre history # commedia
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Creating Motivated and Believable Stage Movement in Pantomime

by Bethany Kennedy

Students demonstrate comprehension of how to present physical activities through pantomime. The focus of the pantomime is using the five senses, using whole body, and incorporating the principles of maintaining a mimed object.
# Technique # pantomime
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Expectations and Goals - Beginning of Year

by Lindsay Price

Students will use sentence starters to set goals and expectations for their time in class. What do they expect to learn? What do they expect from their classmates? What is the purpose of drama class? Have students fill out an expectations and goals form at the beginning of the year and you can use it to compare and contrast their work at the end of the year.
# Reflection # reflection
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Part of Character Analysis - Part 1 Unit

Uta Hagen's Nine Questions

by Matt Webster

Introduce your students to Uta Hagen and the nine questions she uses for character development.
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# Character Development # analysis
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Rejection through Movement and Character

by Lindsay Price

Learning to deal with rejection and turn rejection into a positive motivator is a lifelong skill. In this multi-class lesson, students will reflect on and discuss their views on rejection, theatricalize that view through movement, research someone who has found success only after rejection and failure, and theatricalize that information.
# Character Development # Movement # Reflection # movement # reflection # character development
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Part of Pantomime Unit

Pantomime Story and Performance

by Anna Porter

Students will create a simple pantomime story and prepare a pantomime for performance.
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# Acting # pantomime # acting
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03 - How Do We Keep Student Actors Invested in Rehearsal?

The more you can invest your actors in the process of creation, the more they will stay engaged and interested throughout rehearsals. This resource explores alternatives to the traditional rehearsal process as well as alternatives to traditional blocking methods.
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# Rehearsal Toolkit # rehearsal # production
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Why so Emotional? A Guide for Highly Charged Scenes

A guide for teachers to help with their student actors; to find the right balance within an emotional performance, including exercises that can be explored to counteract overemotional acting.
# Teacher Guides # acting # scene work
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Ensemble Experiences: Large Group

Each ensemble experience includes the title, a list of objectives you can choose from, the goal, guidelines, and instructions.
# The Classroom # ensemble # group activities
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Part of Foundations of Acting Unit

Enriching Your Choices

by Annie Dragoo

In this lesson, students will use the act of entering and exiting a scene in character to demonstrate character choice.
# Acting # acting
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Part of Devising Unit

Building the Play

by Corinna Rezzelle

In this lesson, students continue to build the play by writing and revising scenes, reading each other’s work, and providing feedback.
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# Playwriting # devising # playwriting
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Part of Unit Seven: Directed Scenes Take 2: A Variety of Scenes Unit

Voice Expression and Projection

by Lindsay Johnson

In this lesson, students will rehearse their scenes using a rehearsal checklist, focusing on vocal expression and projection.
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# Directing # directing # middle school friendly
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Part of Unit Four: Intro to Scripted Scenes Unit

Intro to Blocking

by Lindsay Johnson

In this lesson, students will decide how best to include movement in their scene to help an audience understand what is happening in the scene. Students will complete a set design for their partner scene and add 3+ blocking notes to their scripts. Students will also take a Stage Directions Mini-Quiz to demonstrate their understanding of stage directions/basic blocking notes.
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# Character Development # middle school friendly # popular
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Part of Designing with Light: No Tech Required Unit

Exercise 3: Found Lighting Sources

by Kerry Hishon

In this exercise, students are given the opportunity to explore different methods of creating lighting effects using items and resources found around them.
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# Stage Management & Technical Theatre # lighting
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Part of Elizabethan Theatre Unit

Context Clues

by Karen Loftus

Students review context clues and apply it to the Prologue from Romeo and Juliet.
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# Theatre History # theatre history
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Part of Tools of Scene Work Unit

Introduction

by Anna Porter

Have students create a situation from a picture and examine the given clues to help fill in the gaps. Next, have students examine the clues in a contentless scene, then fill in the gaps to create their own scenario to perform.
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# Acting # acting # scene work
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Part of Mock Audition Unit

The Mock Audition

by Lindsay Price

Today is the Mock Audition. In this lesson, you will play director and audition students for one of four roles in the play ‘Jealousy Jane.’ Use the Monologue Performance Rubric to assess their performance.
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# Acting # audition # acting
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Introduction to Children's Theatre

by Bethany Kennedy

Students will learn about and then demonstrate their understanding of the Children’s Theatre audience through role play and writing a scene.
# Genre
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Part of Unit Seven: Directed Scenes Take 2: A Variety of Scenes Unit

Introduction to Physicality

by Lindsay Johnson

In this lesson, students start working on physicality elements. They will complete an Introduction to Physicality Notes sheet and give peer observational feedback.
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# Directing # directing # middle school friendly
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Part of The Role of the Theatre Critic Unit

Critic Case Study: The New York Times

by Lindsay Price

Students will continue to evaluate the role of the critic and the purpose of criticism. In this case study lesson, students will examine the power of the New York Times drama critic in the mid to late 20th century. While there were many outlets reviewing shows, there was an ongoing mythology that a review from the New York Times had the power to keep a show running or close it. Students will discuss and infer if this is true. They will also reflect on the role of the critic who has such power.
# Analysis
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