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Part of Mock Audition Unit

Monologue Prep: Audition Set-Up

by Lindsay Price

Students will continue their journey toward the Mock Audition by exploring what they can do to prepare their monologue. They will practice their monologue and talk about dealing with nerves. This is the final lesson before the Mock Audition - you will review the audition procedure with the class and students will sign up for their audition slot.
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Part of The Dilemma Project Unit

In Character and Group Set-Up

by Claire Broome

In this lesson, using the character they created in the previous lesson, students will show up to class “in character” and repeat the Magic If exercise, and choose their dilemma.
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# Character Development
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Theatre in the Real World | Theatre Skills in the Real World

by Drama Teacher Academy

Drama skills, particularly those learned while studying acting, are used in everyday life. Drama skills are transferable skills that are used in everyday life, particularly in the working world. In this lesson, we will look at a few of them, and then students will improvise real-world situations that apply those skills.
# Comprehension
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Create and Perform a Radio Play

by Kerry Hishon

The objective of the lesson is for students to create and perform their own radio play using a children’s story as the source material. Radio plays are fantastic for students to practice and develop many performance skills like projection, diction, using emotion, and using their voices. They give students the opportunity to creatively work with playwriting, selecting appropriate music, and creating sound effects.
# Playwriting # playwriting
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Playwriting: Forms and Prompts

by Lindsay Price

Use this lesson at the beginning of a playwriting unit, or a devising unit. Students practice the act of choosing a form for a scene and a prompt as a starting point. Drive home for students the importance of execution - instead of students ruminating on the perfect idea, they choose a form, choose a prompt and execute. The goal of the lesson is to show students that there are many different ways to form a theatrical piece and that execution is more useful to moving a piece forward than being stuck on the idea.
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Emergency Lesson Plan: Playwriting Concept - I Can Make People Laugh or Cry With My Words

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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Story vs Monologue

by Lindsay Price

Students will discuss and answer questions regarding the differences between a monologue and a story using The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as a model.
# Playwriting # playwriting # monologue
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Emergency Lesson Plan: Playwriting Concept - Perfection is the Enemy of Art

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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.
# Emergency Lesson Plans # playwriting
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Emergency Lesson Plan: The Basic Playwriting Rules

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Students will read a list of basic playwriting rules, infer the meaning of the rules, read the meanings of each and respond with their personal opinions.
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Prose Into Theatre

by Lindsay Price

Use this lesson plan to get your students to practice the act of writing theatrical action. It's much different than writing a story. Students learn that in plays characters "do" an action, they don't "describe" an action. Students practice taking prose descriptive sentences and re-writing them as theatrical action. Students are also introduced to proper play formatting.
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Preparing to Rewrite

by Lindsay Price

For some students, the first draft is the final draft. I got to the end. I’m done. For some students, writer’s block sinks in quickly after a couple of scenes. Use this lesson plan in the middle of a playwriting unit, after your students have completed some writing on a play - either a first draft or even a couple of scenes. When your students aren’t sure how to move their writing forward - ask questions, define purpose, address writer’s block.
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Emergency Lesson Plan: Reading Reflection and Response - My First Draft is Also My Final Draft Because it's Perfect!

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 Free Play Makeup Unit

Liquid Latex Technique

by Josh Hatt

This is a completely optional day as it requires a material (liquid latex) that you wouldn’t normally have on hand. It gives you an opportunity to show students another facet of stage makeup, opening the door for ideas and projects that students can do within this mini unit. It also creates a great “buy- in” for students who have been reticent to the process thus far.
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# Stage Management & Technical Theatre # technical theatre # makeup
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Playwriting: Analyzing and Applying a Form

by Lindsay Price

Use this as part of a playwriting unit or a devising unit. The goal of the lesson is to show students different ways to explore a theme through writing. Not every scene has to be linear, and not every scene has to follow a traditional format. Students will read existing scenes that apply a specific form for a scene. They will analyze those scenes and then apply their knowledge by writing their own scene.
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Writing a Two Character Scene

by Lindsay Price

Students will read a handout and discuss what it takes to write a two character scene. They will then apply their knowledge through exercises done in class. Finally, they will write and hand in a two character, one location scene which will be assessed.
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Part of Alexander Technique Unit

What is the Alexander Technique?

by Ruthie Tutterow

Students will learn about the Alexander Technique and its six principles. Students will begin to explore how to make personal adjustments in their movements using the Alexander Technique.
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Part of Devising Unit

Characterization

by Corinna Rezzelle

Students explore what makes a character interesting through the examination of physical objects. What do objects say about us? What can you infer about a person by the objects they carry with them? Students will role-play in process drama activities to explore characters and to create their own.
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Part of Comedy of Manners Unit

Culminating Assignment

by Lindsay Price

In this culminating assignment, students will apply what they have learned throughout this unit to a modern devised scene.
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Part of Devising Unit

Choosing a Topic

by Corinna Rezzelle

In this lesson, students discuss and choose a topic for their devised piece.
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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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