Items tagged "Popular"
3 Courses, 6 Lesson Plans, and 6 Resources tagged "Popular" for Drama Teachers.
Courses
Mission Possible: Creating A Mission And Unified Vision For Your Theatre Program
by Amy Patel
Whether you're in a new school or have an existing program, you can use a Mission Statement to define your program, unify your students and let everyone know from administration, to parents, to the community why you do theatre, what you do and how you do it. Learn how to create this powerful and vital statement with your students. Mission Possible takes you through step by step from asking the right questions, to looking at your school culture and traditions, to writing and revising, to shouting your statement from the rooftops.
Breath Control and Projection
by Elisabeth Oppelt
In this course, you will learn what breath control and projection are, how to breathe from your diaphragm and speak loudly without yelling, and how to teach these skills to your students. Led by teacher and singer Elisabeth Oppelt, this course will be helpful both in your teaching practices and in creating material to teach your students. This course also includes both formal and informal assessments for you to use in your classroom.
Basic Lighting for Drama Teachers
by Claire Broome
Join drama teacher Claire Broome and explore the basics of lighting, including lighting systems and instruments, lighting plots, how to record a lighting cue, and alternative sources of lighting. You’ll learn some practical, hands-on ways of using lighting in your classroom or theatre, whether you have a lighting system or not.
This course is packed with hands-on examples, activities for your students, and videos to develop your students’ understanding. Find out why lighting is such an important character in a production.
Lesson Plans
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.
Acting Shakespeare Style
by Lindsay Price
Students will perform a modern scene the same way that Shakespearean actors performed text. They will compare and contrast the experience to preparing a scene for class.
Monologue Writing: The Need to Speak
by Lindsay Price
Students will complete exercises that demonstrate how a character’s need to speak results in a better monologue. They will then write a monologue that applies this knowledge.
Truth and Lies: A Pre-study lesson for The Crucible
by Lindsay Price
Students will discuss and dramatize the theme “truth and lies.” This lesson plan can be used as a pre-study exercise before a unit on The Crucible by Arthur Miller. You could also use it as a general lesson on the verbal and physical characteristics of the act of a believable lie. A great theatrical exploration!
Costuming: Fashion Trends Onstage
by Holly Beardsley
Costumes are a visual medium and so is theatre. A theatrical vision is incomplete without costuming. In this Lesson Plan, students will answer questions in order to develop a costuming vision for a show.
Real World Applications: Swings, Standbys, and Understudies
by Lindsay Price
In this real world application lesson students view videos of a theatre profession, complete viewing quizzes, and hand in a Reflection.
Resources
Analysis and Exercise - A Streetcar Named Desire
An Analysis and Exercise guide to Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Acting: Playing the Opposite
Sometimes when beginning actors approach difficult text, they play exactly what’s on the page. If it’s a sad monologue - they play the whole thing sad from start to finish. If they think the character is mad, they’ll yell all their dialogue. There is a time and place to play a moment as written. But more often than not the most powerful option is to play the opposite. A great example of this is Robert Shaw’s USS Indianapolis speech from Jaws.
Playing Status
Use these two monologues from the movie Little Voice to discuss status and changing status with your students.
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.
Permission Slip: Why I'm Saying No
This tongue in cheek 'permission slip' gives the teacher a checklist of reasons he or she might have to say 'no'.
Do's and Don'ts for Producing BIPOC Plays
Use this list as a discussion starter for your students, or as a point of reference for your next production.
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