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Expanding the Unit

by Karen Loftus

You can add an additional three or four lessons to this unit by adding another performance opportunity.

In this lesson, students will read Act V in sections. You can either move on to Lesson 9 and the culminating project, or you can add a class period and have students work in groups on the Pyramus and Thisbe section.

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Goals, Obstacles, and Tactics

by Nicholas Pappas

In this lesson, we look at the protagonist of the screenplay with a focus on their goals, obstacles, and tactics.

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Basic Screenplay Elements 2

by Nicholas Pappas

In this lesson, students will continue to learn some basic screenplay formatting elements: scene headers/sluglines, action lines, character tags, dialogue, and parentheticals.

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Culminating Project: Write a Screenplay

by Nicholas Pappas

Students will demonstrate their knowledge of screenplay formatting by writing the first 10 pages of a screenplay.

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Performance & Reflection

by Angel Borths

Students will be able to perform an adaptation of a classical greek play, using theatrical masks as a group.

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Performance Reflection

# Theatre History # ancient greek theatre

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The Three-Act Structure

by Nicholas Pappas

In this lesson, students will learn about the three-act structure and see this structure in action through a case study.

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Writing the First Draft

by Lindsay Price

There are two parts to this lesson. Part 1: Students (or you) choose the text they will work on for a theatrical adaptation and apply all the pre-writing steps they’ve practiced in this unit so far. Part 2: Students will write a first draft of their theatrical adaptations.

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What is a Screenplay

by Nicholas Pappas

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the origins of screenplay writing and be able to answer the question “What is a screenplay?”

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Advanced Screenplay Formatting 3

by Nicholas Pappas

In this lesson, students will continue to learn how they can use the basic screenplay elements in an advanced way to help tell their stories with dialogue other than English in an English-language screenplay and white space.

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Advanced Screenplay Formatting 1

by Nicholas Pappas

In this lesson, students will be introduced to how they can use the basic screenplay elements in an advanced way to help tell their stories with extensions, detailed sluglines, and subheaders.

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Rehearsals

by Drama Teacher Academy

Students will put into action the Stanislavski principles, superobjective, and scene scores as they rehearse their scenes for performance. In these classes students will work through planning, blocking, specific details, a line check, and a final runthrough before the performance.

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Theatre Role Definitions

by Karen Loftus

In this lesson, students will learn in action about three theatre roles: the playwright, the director, and the actor. They will take a story and present it using those three roles.

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Culminating Activity

by Drama Teacher Academy

Decide how students will demonstrate their knowledge of the unit. A variety of activities are provided. You can choose to have all your students do the same activity, or allow students to choose how they demonstrate their knowledge. Rubrics are provided for each activity.

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# Theatre History # theatre history

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Choosing a Text

by Lindsay Price

In this lesson, students will look into the key elements of choosing a text for theatrical adaptation: copyright, the thesis for the adaptation—the “what” and the “why” of the adaptation—and discussing how changes will affect the original source material, meaning, is the original iconic?

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The Color Wheel

by Holly Beardsley

Students will apply the color wheel to an understanding of theme and mood in scenic design.

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Stage Pictures

by Lindsay Price

In this lesson, students explore a variety of ways to create dynamic staging pictures when blocking a scene. They will discuss the results and reflect on whether or not what they’ve learned should be added to their blocking.

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Source Material Analysis

by Lindsay Price

In this lesson, students will get into the nitty gritty of adaptation: the close reading and annotation of the source material. You want your students to know the original text inside and out before they start to adapt. Students will use practice texts to try out the exercise that they will then use on their chosen adaptation source material.

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Initial Blocking

by Lindsay Price

Students will identify and notate existing blocking for their scenes. They will also walk through each section beat by beat and notate further blocking.

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