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Part of Unit 7: The Elizabethan Golden Age Unit

Elizabethan Playwrights and Plays

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In this lesson, students will be introduced to Elizabethan playwrights and their plays: Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare.
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Part of Screenplays 101: Basic Structure Unit Unit

Culminating Project

by Nicholas Pappas

In this lesson, students will demonstrate their learned knowledge on the craft of screenplay structure. This project is structured as a group project, but it could easily be an individual project if you have a small class or if you have students working online.
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Part of Character Creation: Superhero Series: Multi platform Unit

Culminating Assignment

by Lindsay Price

Using their chosen character, students write an original monologue for this character, design a costume and a prop/tool, and perform their monologue with specific physical and vocal quality choices.
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Part of Character Analysis - Part 2 Unit

Feedback Session

by Matt Webster

In this class, they are going to present their scenes in front of multiple groups and receive their feedback. They will then review their feedback and decide on what changes they’ll make to their scenes.
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Part of The Dilemma Project Unit

Final Performance and Reflection

by Claire Broome

In this lesson, groups will perform and reflect on their performance.
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Part of Absurdism: Beyond the Origins Unit

Absurdism and Other Isms

by Lindsay Price

In this lesson, students will define the different eras of the beginning to the middle of the 20th century and apply their knowledge in exercises.
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Part of Absurdism: Beyond the Origins Unit

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

by Lindsay Price

In this lesson, students will move beyond the traditional origins of Theatre of the Absurd through two different playwrights: Vaclav Havel (Audience) and Issam Abdel-Masih Mahfouz (The Dictator), both of whom write about environments where power has created a distorted reality. Students will be introduced to these playwrights and then write their own version of a distorted reality.
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Part of 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.
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Part of Aristotle's Elements Unit

Character Matters

by Lea Marshall

To introduce the Aristotelian element of Character.
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Copyright Introduction

by Craig Mason

Copyright and the Theatre go hand in hand, especially if you’re doing plays. But a topic about which many students (and even teachers) lack knowledge. Students will reflect upon and discuss four questions introducing the topic of copyright. They will then improvise scenarios -- two of which establish copyright correctly, two of which establish copyright incorrectly. The lesson ends with students deciding which scenarios are correct.
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Part of Unit Eight: Theatre of the Oppressed Unit

Creating Forum Theatre Scenarios

by Lindsay Johnson

In groups, students will begin by briefly bringing to life the tableaux from Lesson 5. They will then create the skeleton of a scene for each tableau, indicating the protagonist, antagonist, and method of oppression in each scenario. Finally, students will review their peer’s work and rank the scenes that they are most interested in bringing to life.
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Part of Aristotle's Elements Unit

Final Project

by Lea Marshall

To have students apply what they have learned.
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Part of Aristotle's Elements Unit

Got Thoughts?

by Lea Marshall

To continue applying the Aristotelian element of Thought.
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Part of Aristotle's Elements Unit

I Got the Music

by Lea Marshall

To introduce the Aristotelian element of Music.
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Part of Unit Eight: Theatre of the Oppressed Unit

Image Theatre, Day 3

by Lindsay Johnson

In groups, students will brainstorm a list of scenarios in which they feel power or oppression in their daily lives. They will then select a scenario from their list and turn it into a tableau.
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Part of Unit Six: Directed Scenes Take 1: Same Scene, Different Visions Unit

Auditions

by Lindsay Johnson

In this lesson, students will run auditions, or participate in them, for the scene, and directors will cast their scenes.
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Emergency Lesson Plan: Elements of Greek Tragedy

by Lindsay Price

In this ELP, students will study a handout on Ancient Greek Tragedy, take a short quiz and write a reflection.
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Part of Decolonizing Monologues Unit

Capturing the Way People Speak

by Nicholas Pappas

Students will learn to break free of academia’s stringent MLA formatting and “proper” speech patterns, while recognizing their own code-switching, to capture authentic and natural rhythms to match the speech patterns of their friends, families, and community.
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Part of Devising Unit

Revision

by Corinna Rezzelle

In this lesson students watch the Ren Run then discuss the topic of revision. What is the message of the play? How do the scenes communicate the message? Note: Depending on the amount of revisions your students feel the play needs, revising might take longer than one lesson. Feel free to add time, if need be.
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Part of Character Development with an Indigenous Perspective Unit

Character Traits - Seven Grandfather Teachings

by Allison Green

These lessons move from the story into activity. Students will try interpreting, actively modelling, and practicing stepping into the character traits of Love, Wisdom, Respect, Bravery, Honesty, Humility, and Truth.
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