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Part of Tools of Scene Work Unit

Final Performance

by Anna Porter

Students will perform and be evaluated on the contentless scene that they have prepared during the unit.
# Acting # acting # scene work
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Part of Sound Unit

Research Project: Greek Myth Sound Assignment

by Karen Loftus

To have students demonstrate an effective use of sound for a specific story.
# Stage Management & Technical Theatre # stagecraft
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Part of Our Town Unit Unit

Our Town Act One - Read

by Lindsay Price

In this lesson, students will read and analyze Act One of Our Town within the theme of the ordinary versus universality. 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.
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Human Story Board

by Karen Loftus

This is a great exercise to allow students to create original stories. Students literally make a “human story board” by standing in a line and adding in various elements of a story. The story begins with a beginning, middle, and end and then the students add main ideas and details to round out the entire story.
# Comprehension
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Part of Commedia dell'Arte Unit

Status

by Todd Espeland

This lesson introduces the first tool: status. Students will physically perform high and low status through status walks.
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# Acting # commedia
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The Foundations of Playwriting

by Lindsay Price

Use this lesson plan as an introduction to a playwriting unit. This is a two lesson plan unit. Students complete exercises that demystify and reframe the four foundational elements of the playwriting process: Warm Ups, The Idea, Character, and Conflict. These plans are grounded in the statement: “You can’t build a house without a good foundation.” In order to write plays students need to know the basics first.
# Playwriting # playwriting
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Part of Introduction to Musical Theatre: Movement Unit

Movement for Inanimate/Animal Character

by Annie Dragoo

Students will demonstrate their ability to move like an inanimate object by performing a scene.
# Musical Theatre # musical theatre
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Part of Comedy of Manners Unit

Characters in the Comedy of Manners

by Lindsay Price

The Comedy of Manners is a style of comedy that uses satire to highlight the behaviours, actions, fashions, and “manners” of a segment of society. Students will explore characters in the comedy of manners and then create a comedy of manners character profile with one of the characters from The Importance of Being Earnest.
# Theatre History
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Themes in the Crucible: A Good Reputation

by Lindsay Price

Students will discuss the theme of a reputation in The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Students will participate in activities, scene work and written reflection on the theme. It is assumed that students are in the middle of reading the play or at least have been introduced to the story.
# Analysis # analysis
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Part of Elements of Design Unit

Line and Shape

by Karen Loftus

Students explore the design concepts of line and shape and how they can be used by a designer to affect an audience.
# Stage Management & Technical Theatre # stagecraft
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Part of Aristotle's Elements Unit

Spectacular, Spectacular

by Lea Marshall

To introduce the Aristotelian element of Spectacle.
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Part of Our Town Unit Unit

Our Town Pre-Reading Exercise

by Lindsay Price

In this pre-reading lesson, students reflect on their day-to-day life and look for the connection between the ordinary and universality. It’s important to have them connect the ordinary and universality in a modern context, before moving to the same connections in the text.
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Part of Theatre of the Absurd Unit

The Pause

by Lea Marshall

Students will perform a blank scene, varying the placements and lengths of pauses to show the absurdist convention of using pauses to create tension and misunderstanding. They will also be introduced to the master of the pause, Harold Pinter.
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Part of Comedy of Manners Unit

Manners and Codes in the Comedy of Manners

by Lindsay Price

The comedy of manners is a style of comedy that uses satire to highlight the behaviours, actions, fashions, and “manners” of a segment of society. Students will explore the element of manners and codes of behaviour in a modern context, and then look at how the element is applied to a scene from The Importance of Being Earnest.
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Part of Aristotle's Elements Unit

Thinking About Thoughts

by Lea Marshall

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

Speak the Speech

by Lea Marshall

To introduce the Aristotelian element of Diction.
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Part of Mock Audition Unit

The Acting Resume

by Lindsay Price

An actor needs two documents when they audition for a role: a resume and a headshot. What should go on an acting resume and what should stay off of it? What is an auditioner looking for? Students will discuss the purpose of an acting resume, review a model, and reflect on the process. Students will use this template when they create a resume for their mock audition.
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Part of Theatre of the Absurd Unit

Cliches, Stereotypes, and Overused Phrases in Waiting for Godot

by Lea Marshall

Students will be introduced to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and examine clichés, stereotypes, and overused phrases.
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Part of Improvisation Unit

Make Your Partner Look Good

by Karen Loftus

Students apply this guideline through the games Cars, Vans, Buses, Blocking on Purpose, Questions Only and Here Comes Charley.
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Part of Creating a Musical: Project Unit

Performing the Musical

by Annie Dragoo

Students will apply everything they have worked on throughout this unit: writing, choreography, blocking, and rehearsing.
# Musical Theatre # musical theatre
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