AE17.TH.5.11

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 5 - Theatre

AE17.TH.5.11
Choose acting exercises that can be applied to a drama/theatre work.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Theatre artists develop personal processes and skills for a performance or design.
EQ: What can I do to fully prepare a performance or technical design?

Skills Examples

Use nonsense dialogue or one-word sentences and other such activities to have pairs or small groups practice using a variety of inflections.
Identify the underlying thoughts and emotions involved in the dialogue.
Watch a dramatic/ theatrical work and enumerate the underlying thoughts and emotions of a character.
Use theater games (e.g., "Follow Your Nose" or "Sculptor") to enhance the physicality of a character through sensory recall and visualization.
Use theater games to enhance creativity, focus, improvisation, and ensemble building.
Incorporate skills from theater games into a student performance (e.g., a folk story or piece of literature).
Prepare and rehearse the piece, polishing and revising as the collaborators see fit.
Be able to explain or demonstrate how the vocal and physical skills they have practiced were used in the performance.
Determine skills needed for active listening (e.g., concentrating, responding to, and remembering).
Perform piece for an audience that practices active listening.
Students discuss and constructively evaluate the elements of the performance, drawing on what they remember from active listening.

Vocabulary

Research
Analysis

purpose

Voice

Inflection

Movement

sensory recall
visualization
personal space

Characterization

internal dialogue

Directing
Design
Theatrical production

active listening

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.