AE17.TH.2.8

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 2 - Theatre

EU: Theatre artists refine their work and practice their craft through rehearsal.
EQ: How do theatre artists transform and edit their initial ideas?

Familiarize oneself with a short story, song, or fairytale.
Brainstorm potential new details to the plot of the story, song, or fairytale.
Explore and articulate ideas for setting and scenery for an improvised dramatic/ theatrical work.
Collaborate to determine how characters might speak or the sounds the characters might make in a dramatic/ theatrical work based on the story, song, or fairytale with the changes made to the details. Use vocal warm-ups and tongue twisters to create new sounds and help with articulation, respectively.
Once voices are determined, collaborate to determine how characters might speak in the dramatic/ theatrical work by improvising dialogue and the specific traits of various characters' voices (i.e., pitch, speed, volume).
Determine what makes dialogue meaningful (does it reveal a purpose or a character motivation). Analyze a short, age-appropriate script, deleting any unnecessary dialogue.
Collaborate with peers to create an improvisation with meaningful dialogue.
Collaborate with a group to create a class story (the story game). Things such as meaningful dialogue should be taken into consideration.
Chose an animal to impersonate. How can the sound made by that animal contribute to the voice of one's character?

Research
Analysis
Voice

Movement
Characterization
Directing
Design
Theatrical production

Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.

Example: Imagine and pantomime various uses of a pencil – fishing rod, ice pick, or toothbrush.