Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Theatre artists critically inquire into the ways others have thought about and created drama processes and productions to inform their own work.
EQ: In what ways can research into theatre histories, theories, literature, and performances alter the way a drama process or production is understood?
EQ: In what ways can research into theatre histories, theories, literature, and performances alter the way a drama process or production is understood?
Skills Examples
- The students will study morality plays and write a short play for class. They will use modern day moral dilemmas to recreate the morality plays of rebirth of theatre.
- Students will read a one act play of a specific time period and discuss how their personal perspectives impact their response to the play.
- Students will be divided into groups and will be assigned different genres to create a short scene. Students will do a gallery walk to watch each group's performance. They will then respond to each scene asking the following questions: 1. How did I feel? 2. What did I see? 3. I have an opinion would you like to hear it? Students can then respond to critique in a constructive way.
- Students will break into groups of two and write a short play. They will then research the process of how they can copyright it. They will sell their plays to the class, who will represent a publishing company. The play that is chosen will be "published." The class will then fill out a contract that they develop through research in order to perform the play. They will have a reader's theatre performance of the show. The students will create and perform the characters.
Vocabulary
Research
- Period styles of acting
- Presentational acting
- script reading
- characterization
- motivation
- projection
- diaphragmatic breathing
- posture
- period movement
- motivated movement
- adapting the body to the show
- Focus
- objectives
- Outside in Acting
- pantomime
- Designing for the
- period production
- Building technique
- Shop safety
- 5Ws
- Dramatic Structure
- Dialogue
- Nonverbal
- Communication
- Concept unification
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
