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Lesson 7 of 17 in Creating Your Own Musical Unit

Musical Theatre Form; Sweeney Todd

by Laramie Dean

In this lesson, we begin viewing Sweeney Todd. Students will watch carefully in order to complete the required sections in their study guide.
# Musical Theatre # musical theatre

Character Development in the Shakespearean Monologue

by Lindsay Price

To demonstrate how modern character development exercises apply to Shakespearean characters. Students apply exercises to a character from Shakespeare by examining at the character’s foreground and background, answering character questions, and creating the character’s physicality. This will demystify the process of preparing a Shakespearean monologue and give students the tools they need to prepare a monologue on their own.
# Shakespeare # character development # monologue # Shakespeare
Lesson 7 of 9 in Unit Six: Directed Scenes Take 1: Same Scene, Different Visions Unit

Movement Review

by Lindsay Johnson

In this lesson, students will complete four rehearsals of their scenes using a rehearsal checklist, focusing on movement skills (blocking, tactics, levels).
# Directing # directing # middle school friendly
Lesson 8 of 11 in Playwriting Unit: Beginner Unit

How Do You Give Feedback?

by Lindsay Price

The first draft is due in this class. The class will begin with a feedback exercise. Then students will read their draft aloud and receive feedback.
# Playwriting # playwriting
Lesson 2 of 4 in Voice Unit

Session 2

by Lindsay Price

Students explore resonance and the resonators.
# Voice # voice
Lesson 5 of 13 in Theatre of the Absurd Unit

Meaningless Language and The Bald Soprano

by Lea Marshall

Students will explore the absurdism theatrical convention of using meaningless language to communicate (or not communicate) a larger theme of interpersonal relationships and misunderstandings. Students will create nonsensical scenes using their own text messages.
Lesson 11 of 12 in 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 Mock Audition Rubric to assess their performance.

Subtext: Pass the Salt

by Lindsay Price

Subtext is the underlying meaning in a text. What is a character thinking? Learning to apply subtext to a scene is an excellent character development tool. It encourages students to think about “the why” behind a line. “Why does a character say this line? Why do they use a particular inflection? What are they really trying to say? In this lesson plan, students explore the meaning of subtext, practice applying subtext in dialogue and to create their own scene.
# Playwriting # Character Development # playwriting # character development
Lesson 4 of 7 in Playwriting: Part 1 Unit

Dialogue

by Lindsay Price

In this lesson, students will write two-character, one-location, ten-line scenes to practice getting to the heart of effective and efficient scene writing.
# Playwriting # playwriting
Lesson 5 of 7 in Tools of Scene Work Unit

Stage Business

by Anna Porter

Students will participate in an observation activity and play “What Are You Doing?” to explore how stage business affects performance. In this lesson, you will coach students through a scene with stage business, then they will apply stage business to their own performances.
# Acting # acting # scene work
Lesson 7 of 11 in Playwriting Unit: Beginner Unit

What is Theatricality?

by Lindsay Price

Students will answer the question “What is theatricality?” in terms of what makes a play stageable. Students will apply this concept to a stageability exercise.
# Playwriting # playwriting
Lesson 5 of 8 in Our Town Unit Unit

Our Town Act Two - Read

by Lindsay Price

In this lesson, students will read and analyze Act Two of Our Town within the theme of love and marriage. The lesson format encourages students to explore text themes and concepts through scene work before they read, participate in a small group discussion post read, and then take on an activity to apply knowledge through a theatrical expression of the text.
# The Basics
Lesson 11 of 13 in Theatre of the Absurd Unit

Impossible Things are Happening Every Day

by Lea Marshall

Students will create a scene where impossible things happen and there isn’t a conventional response. This is a multiple-class lesson.
Lesson 13 of 13 in Theatre of the Absurd Unit

Unit Project

by Lea Marshall

Students will apply what they have learned in a final project. Their goal is to demonstrate their understanding of the elements and the historical and philosophical background of absurdism. This will be a multi-day project.
Lesson 2 of 3 in Front of House Unit

Basic Marketing

by Karen Loftus

Students continue their exploration by learning about elements of a marketing poster and applying that information by designing a poster.
# The Basics
Lesson 4 of 10 in Playwriting: Part 2 Unit

Session 4: How Do You Give/Receive Feedback?

by Lindsay Price

Students will discuss and examine how to give and receive feedback. Then students will read their first draft aloud and receive feedback on it.
# Playwriting # playwriting
Lesson 3 of 10 in Unit Eight: Theatre of the Oppressed Unit

Image Theatre, Day 1

by Lindsay Johnson

Students will be introduced to Boal’s Image Theatre. They will review the concept of tableau (frozen picture) from Lesson 1, and they will be introduced to the tableau rubric and the three tableau skills (frozen bodies, 3+ levels, and character). In small groups, they will create tableaux that capture an image of “Family” (whatever that word means to them).
# The Basics # middle school friendly

Example of Student and Parent Contract

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This is a template and example you can use with your student actors to ensure commitment and a clear understanding of expectations across all aspects of a high school production. There is also an example parent/guardian contract included, to ensure their understanding regarding production commitments, including attendance, participation fees, and parent volunteer opportunities. These are both designed to help you communicate with your student actors and parents in order to set your cast and families up for a successful production.
# The Classroom # acting

Approaching Random Tasks in Character

by Kerry Hishon

The objective of this lesson is for students to delve deeper into their roles by experimenting with performing a variety of everyday tasks while in character. As well, it offers students the chance to explore different ways of moving and thinking while in character.
# Character Development # character development # acting
Lesson 1 of 11 in Playwriting Unit: Beginner Unit

What is a Playwright

by Lindsay Price

In this first lesson, students discuss their preconceived notions about playwriting, their expectations and fears, and identify actions: What does a playwright do?
# Playwriting # playwriting