Enduring Understanding 2: Development of skills, techniques, and processes in the arts strengthens our ability to remember, focus on, process, and sequence information.

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Number: TH.912.S.2
Title: Development of skills, techniques, and processes in the arts strengthens our ability to remember, focus on, process, and sequence information.
Type: Enduring Understanding
Subject: Theatre
Grade: 912
Big Idea: Skills, Techniques, and Processes

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Independent

TH.912.S.2.In.a
Create or re-create one or more technical design documents for a theatrical production.
TH.912.S.2.In.b
Describe physical and emotional qualities that define one or more major characters in a theatrical production.
TH.912.S.2.In.c
Refine memorized scenes to establish successful interpretation, expression, and believability.
TH.912.S.2.In.d
Describe how casting, staging, or technical design influence artistic intent.

Supported

TH.912.S.2.Su.a
Create or re-create selected components of one or more technical design documents for a theatrical production.
TH.912.S.2.Su.b
Identify physical and emotional qualities that define one or more major characters in a theatrical production.
TH.912.S.2.Su.c
Refine memorized scenes to establish successful interpretation, expression, and believability.
TH.912.S.2.Su.d
Identify how casting, staging, or technical design influences artistic intent.

Participatory

TH.912.S.2.Pa.a
Contribute to the creation or re-creation of one or more technical design documents for a theatrical production.
TH.912.S.2.Pa.b
Recognize a physical or emotional quality that defines one or more major characters in a theatrical production.
TH.912.S.2.Pa.c
Contribute selected lines or actions to scenes to establish successful interpretation, expression, and believability.
TH.912.S.2.Pa.d
Recognize how a selected casting, staging, or technical design characteristic influences artistic intent.

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Educational Game

Theater Games:

This document details the steps to play two different theater games.  One is Name Ball and the other is Mirroring.

Type: Educational Game

Lesson Plans

Monologue Challenge:

Students will be challenged to memorize and perform two contrasting monologues to demonstrate their ability to create contrasting characters and develop advanced vocal expression.  Contrast can be created through genre, use of dialect or accent, and/or subject matter.   Generally, the wider the contrast, the more successful students will be with this performance.  

Type: Lesson Plan

Let's Improvise!:

Improvisation is a basic skill in theatre. This lesson is the tip of the iceberg. 

Type: Lesson Plan

Accents and Dialects:

Students will research and practice various accents and dialects from all over the world.

Type: Lesson Plan

Creating a Pantomime:

The students will pre-assess what they know about creating a story through just movement. Students will brainstorm, create, utilize technology, and rehearse a pantomime which demonstrates appropriate stage movement and collaboration with a partner.

Type: Lesson Plan

Modern Day Shakespeare:

In this lesson students will recite, translate and act out a Shakespearian scene.  Students will first read the scene as written, then break down the language into contemporary English.  The lesson will conclude with the students performing the scenes for the class.

Type: Lesson Plan

Shifting Objects of Attention:

One of the primary ways students can maintain their focus and concentration on stage is using the shifting of object of attention within a scene to stay in truthful moments while sustaining a character. In this lesson, the students will pre-assess how they focus in real life, students will be introduced to examples of people using object of attention. Students will use stream of conscious speaking/writing to describe the object of attention shifting in their pre-rehearsed scene. 

Type: Lesson Plan

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