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Part of Technical Theatre: Leadership in Theatre Unit

The Technical Director

by Drama Teacher Academy

Students will analyze the role of a technical director. They will also explore safety standards within a technical theatre scene shop and construct a budget for an imaginary production.
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Part of Creating Your Own Musical Unit

Presenting Devised Pieces

by Laramie Dean

In this lesson, students will present their devising pieces and prepare to create their own musicals.
# Musical Theatre # musical theatre
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Part of Laban: Advanced Characterization Unit

Laban and Voice

by Drama Teacher Academy

In this lesson, students will practice applying the elements and efforts before choosing an effort to perform a monologue based on text analysis and the given situation for their characters.
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Part of Creating a Musical: Project Unit

Writing the Musical

by Annie Dragoo

Students will write a musical by adding modern songs to a traditional fairy tale story.
# Musical Theatre # musical theatre
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Medieval Drama - Morality Plays

by Lindsay Price

Lessons to cover two class periods. Students learn the elements of a Medieval Morality Play and then create their own morality play with a modern context. Includes a modern version of "Everyman" and three assessment rubrics.
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# Theatre History # theatre history
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Compare and Contrast: Adaptation

by Lindsay Price

Students will compare and contrast a scene from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Lindsay Price’s adaptation Humbug High.
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Part of Our Town Unit Unit

Our Town Act Three - Being Eternal and Culminating Presentation

by Lindsay Price

In this lesson, students will continue to analyze the third act of Our Town with a focus of examining the concept of the eternal as it connects to valuing the ordinary.
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Part of Aristotle's Elements Unit

Bonus Lesson: The Three Vs of Storytelling

by Lea Marshall

This can be a standalone lesson, or an add-on to the unit. It introduces the concept of the 3 V's: VIEWERS are looking for a VICARIOUS, VULNERABLE, and/or VISCERAL experience.
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Part of 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.
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Part of Scene Staging Unit

Beats and Action Words

by Lindsay Price

This unit now moves into the second phase of the rehearsal process: staging. Students will start by taking their script analysis work with beats and action words and apply it to their scenes through exploratory movement.
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Compare and Contrast: "To Be or Not To Be" on Film

by Lindsay Price

In this lesson plan, students will compare four different film versions of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark using the same scene: Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” speech. How do the four versions tackle the same text? Film is a visual medium – what visuals do they use to tell the story? Do they cut or adapt any of the text? Students will discuss their findings and write a Reflection. A slide deck is provided as part of the materials for this lesson.
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Emergency Lesson Plan: Playwriting Concept - Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

by Drama Teacher Academy

Students will read a text that shares a point of view on a specific playwriting concept. They will freewrite their first impression of the text, answer questions on the text to develop their own personal opinion, and then complete a theatrical response to the text. Do they agree with the text? Disagree? Do they theatricalize the concept? This could be a scene, monologue, performance poem, costume, or set design, anything that can be put on paper and submitted.
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Part of Front of House Unit

Marketing and Audience Experience

by Karen Loftus

Students continue their exploration by learning about the press release and creating a marketing plan for an original play.
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Part of Character Analysis - Part 2 Unit

Scoring, Beats and Action Words

by Matt Webster

Students will score their scene and identify the beats and action words, and then they will start to physicalize their analysis. This is a review lesson as they learned about scoring in Part 1.
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Part of Character Analysis - Part 1 Unit

Scoring and Beats

by John Minigan

To introduce the idea of “objective/goal, obstacle, and action/tactic” to simple scenes by scoring those scenes and playing the scored text.
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Part of Playwriting: Part 2 Unit

Session 9: Final Writing Day

by Lindsay Price

This is the last class session students have to work on their plays.
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Emergency Lesson Plan: Reading Reflection and Response - Writer's Block is a Beast!

by Drama Teacher Academy

Students will read the provided text that explores a playwriting “non-truth.” Students will summarize the main idea of the text and share their personal opinions of the concept by answering questions. They will then complete a theatrical response to the text. Do they agree with the text? Disagree? Do they theatricalize the concept? This could be a scene, monologue, performance poem, costume, or set design, anything that can be put on paper and submitted.
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Part of Anti-Realism Unit

Expressionism

by Wendy-Marie Martin

This lesson investigates expressionist theatre and compare to the other movements discussed thus far. Using O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, students will conduct deep analysis on a scene.
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Active Listening

by Anna Porter

Students will understand the importance of actively listening and using active listening to inform their character choices in performance. They will participate in listening exercises and apply active listening to their scene work.
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Choral Reading

by Lindsay Price

Students will practice the techniques of choral speaking with a variety of pieces and applying specific vocal tools (volume, pitch, rhythm, emphasis) culminating in a assessed presentation.
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