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Use this rubric to assess group oral presentations.

Use this rubric to assess close reading activities.

Use this rubric to assess tableau exercises and assignments.

Use this rubric to assess scene performance.

Use this rubric to assess student reflections.

Use this rubric to assess a point of view exercise.

Use this rubric to assess monologue writing.

Use this rubric to assess monologue performance.

10 questions to use when evaluating improv performances.

Where does a director start with a play? Start with questions. Use this series of analytical and conceptual questions on your chosen text.

An exit slip is a question, a prompt, a rating, or a response to the day’s lesson. Here are 100 prompts for you to use in the classroom.

Rudolf Laban was a choreographer and a dancer. He defined human movement into eight efforts. Each movement has four component parts (direction, speed, weight, flow). Those four component parts have two elements to them (direct/indirect, quick/sustained, heavy/light, bound/ free). Use these “efforts” to give your students specific choices when it comes to character's physicalization. Choose an effort that defines how they move.

This is a sample six rehearsal schedule for a full length play. Use this as a model and modify according to your and your students' needs.

A guide to the different types of props, and a sorting activity to help students identify props by category (scenic props, hand props, set dressing).

Lindsay Price's Monologue This workshop, video taken live via Periscope.

Learn the five keys that every actor needs to know when rehearsing a play - designed to help students to their best work.

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.”

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

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

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