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Part of Lighting Unit

Research Project: Lighting

by Karen Loftus

Students will dive deeper in their knowledge of specific lighting equipment and/or systems as a way to further their ability to use lighting as a tool of storytelling.
# Stage Management & Technical Theatre # stagecraft
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Tharon Musser: Lighting Designer Pioneer

by Drama Teacher Academy

Students will start with pre-reading questions about lighting design. They will then read an article about prolific lighting designer Tharon Musser who revolutionized the field of lighting design. Finally, students will reflect on what they have learned.
# Stage Management & Technical Theatre # LGBTQ+
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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 Scene Work: Part 2, Student Self Staging Unit

Session 9: Purposeful Action

by Lindsay Price

Students have been through their scene multiple times with specific blocking choices. They have been working on memorization and character physicality. In their rehearsal today, students will review their blocking choices with a specific objective of making every action in the scene purposeful and theatrical.
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# Character Development # scene work
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Part of Unit Two: Improvisation Basics Unit

Accepting & Building on Offers

by Lindsay Johnson

In this first improvisation lesson, students will work with the definitions of the key vocabulary terms by adding their own offers to improvised exercises and accepting and building on peer offers. Students will also give written and verbal peer feedback on the first row (ACCEPTING AND BUILDING ON OFFERS) row of the Improvisation Rubric, using language such as “improvisation” and “offers.”
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# Improvisation # middle school friendly
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Part of Unit Three: Building Improvised Scenes Unit

Conflict and Objectives

by Lindsay Johnson

In this lesson, we’ll look at multiple perspectives that can lead to a conflict. In pairs, students will improvise a short scene in which each character has an objective that conflicts with the other character’s objective.
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# Improvisation # middle school friendly
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Part of Unit Three: Building Improvised Scenes Unit

Scene Performance Assessment

by Lindsay Johnson

In this lesson, students will use a variety of methods they’ve learned so far during this unit to communicate meaning in a scene: setting, pantomime, relationship clues, objectives, stakes, and tactics. Students will perform their final partner scene in front of the class for assessment. They will also complete an Audience Feedback Sheet in which they give their peers feedback on Rubric skills.
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# Improvisation # middle school friendly
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Part of Unit Eight: Theatre of the Oppressed Unit

Image Theatre, Day 2

by Lindsay Johnson

Students will review the three tableau skills (frozen bodies, 3+ levels, and character). In small groups, they will analyze the tableaux from last class that captured an image of “Family” (whatever that word meant to them), as well as create and analyze new tableaux around a topical issue in society.
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# The Basics # middle school friendly
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Acting the Monologue: Sugar and Salt

by Lindsay Price

This is a great exercise when students are in the middle of preparing a monologue. Students will apply variety to a monologue in the following ways: - Variety of pace (choosing a line to slow down or a place to pause) - Variety of tone (choosing a line to deliver with an opposite tone) Includes two sample monologues.
# Acting # acting # monologue
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Part of Musical Theatre Unit

Acting the Song - Textual Analysis

by Anna Porter

Students will understand how to analyze a song to find meaning, objective, and tactics through textual analysis.
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A Cross-Curricular Performance Challenge

by Kerry Hishon

To use theatrical techniques to present a short lesson from another class in a creative and entertaining way. The lessons and methods of presentation are only limited by the students’ imaginations.
# Acting # acting
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Acting Techniques: A Method Exercise

by Lindsay Price

There are a number of different acting techniques: Method, Stanislavski, Viewpoints, Meisner, Viola Spolin. Use this lesson plan as an introduction to a specific technique. Instead of learning by lecture, have students learn by doing. The Relaxation Exercise encourages students to focus on relaxing the body part by part. The Animal Exercise encourages students to observe an animal, take on the characteristics of an animal and reflect on how animal exploration would be helpful in character development.
# Technique # Acting # acting
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Part of The Actor in Transition: From Presentational to Three-Dimensional Unit

Acting the Other and Intensifying the Tactics

by John Minigan

This lesson includes a series of improv games to focus students on “the other” rather than “the self,” on listening, on sharing their energy with scene partners, and on collaboration in acting.
# Acting # acting
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Part of Musical Theatre Unit

Acting the Song - Musical Tactics

by Anna Porter

Students will understand how they can identify and create their own musical tactics and interpretation of a song by breaking down its music and lyrics. Students will build upon/review their understanding of basic music terminology and apply it to performance.
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Part of Improvisation Unit

Accept the Offer

by Karen Loftus

Students apply this guidelines through the games “Yes and…” “Yes Let’s,” and Low Risk Experts.
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Part of Abstract Scene Performance Unit

Abstract Scene Performances

by Annie Dragoo

Students will perform their abstract scenes for classes who have been invited to observe.
# Acting # acting # scene work
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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 Unit Four: Intro to Scripted Scenes Unit

Scene Performance Assessment

by Lindsay Johnson

Students will review the various techniques we’ve explored this unit (voice, movement, set design, projection, etc.) to convey meaning in a contentless scene. Students will perform their final partner scene for assessment in front of the class. They will also completed an audience feedback sheet where they give their peers feedback on Rubric skills.
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Part of Unit Five: Intro to Script Writing Unit

Scripted Scene Performance Assessment

by Lindsay Johnson

In this lesson, students will perform their final partner scene for assessment in front of the class. They will also complete an audience feedback sheet where they give their peers feedback on rubric skills.
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# Playwriting # playwriting # middle school friendly
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Part of Unit Eight: Theatre of the Oppressed Unit

Performance Assessment

by Lindsay Johnson

In this lesson, students will perform their final scene for assessment in front of the class. They will also complete an audience feedback sheet where they give their peers feedback on rubric skills.
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# The Basics # middle school friendly
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