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Shakespeare Insults Exercise

If you want students to get comfortable with Shakespeare’s language, use insults. The objective of this exercise is to get students to use their voice and body as they practice words outside their natural normal vocabulary. To understand the statement: “Words do not mean what they mean, words mean what you intend them to mean.”

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Improvising Your Monologue Exercise

Use this exercise in the middle of a monologue project, to get students to the heart of the monologue, using improvisation techniques.

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Scenes for Classroom Study: Funhouse

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Popular Girl (13), Egg Girl (13) Genre: Drama

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Moving Warm-Ups

Use these exercises when you want to get students up on their feet and moving around the room before your first activity.

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Ten Rounds For Your Next Warm Up

Are you looking for a great vocal warm up that will improve their listening skills? Use rounds!

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The Vowel Tree

The Vowel Tree is a great warm up because it gets students used to just making sounds and working the entire range from the low end of the voice to the high end. You can find a video demonstration of The Vowel Tree in Lesson Two of the Friendly Shakespeare Course. Watch the video and try the exercise for yourself!

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Kitty in a Corner

This is a great movement and warm-up game, in which students need to communicate using eye contact as they move and switch spaces.

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Improv Warm Up Games

This resource has a list and description of six different warm-up games, great for improv groups or any theatre class.

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Character Projection Warm Up

Use this warm up to get students not only thinking about the physicality of a character but projection as well.

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Poster: The Role of the Audience

A printable poster for your classroom - with some key reminders of the role of the audience.

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Poster: Theatre Audience Etiquette

A printable poster for your classroom or theatre - a few simple rules for theatre audience etiquette!

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Uta Hagen's 9 Questions

In Respect for Acting, Uta identified 9 questions an actor should ask themselves as they prepare. It’s all about being as specific as possible. Introduce the 9 questions to your students, and use the included worksheet and reflection.

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Shakespeare Exercise: Physicalizing the Punctuation

Use this exercise with the Shakespeare you are studying (or the included monologue) to answer the question: how can punctuation give clues an actor can use to help act the scene?

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Shakespeare Exercise: Tomb Scene

This exercise encourages students to examine the language of a scene for clues on character action. Shakespeare often tells actors exactly what to “do.”

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High and Low Status

One of the ways that we can learn about status is by physically playing status in the body. Use these descriptions to physicalize high/low status with your students in the Status Walks Game.

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Language Profile Sheet

This exercise helps students think about how their characters sound.

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First Lines

Use these first lines prompts (list of 35) for monologue and scene work.

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The 24 Hour Student Playwriting Festival

What is a 24 hour playwriting festival? Student playwrights gather together and write for 12 hours. (eg: 8pm to 8am) Student directors and actors then cast, stage, rehearse and perform during the next 12 hours (8am to 8pm). Everything from concept to production takes place within 24 hours. Follow the step by step outline in the resource.

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Bloom's Taxonomy Action Words

Use this list to inspire your students to use higher order vs. lower order thinking words.

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Participation/Positive Contribution Rehearsal Rubric

A rubric for a student to assess a partner's positive contribution and participation in rehearsals.

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