AE17.TH.PRO.11

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 09-12 - Theatre

AE17.TH.PRO.11

Explore various acting techniques to expand skills in a rehearsal or drama/theatre performance.

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

  • Students will discuss in a classroom setting the differences in dealing with friends, family, fellow workers, employees or a boss: how you speak, listen and react differently in each of those relationships.
  • Students will have improvisational scenes using those roles as starting points in the scenes.
  • Students will study Viola Spolin techniques in class and use those techniques in classroom scene work.
  • Students will research scenic painting and how it can enhance scene aesthetic for their various plays and performances.
  • Students will create Living Newspapers for their classroom audience, using modern articles, various roles for each student and rehearsal to refine the final performance.

Vocabulary

Research
  • motivation
  • origin
Analysis
  • rising actions
  • climax
  • protagonist vs antagonist
Vocal
  • Alexander Technique
  • diction
  • consonants
  • vowels
Movement
  • motivated movement
  • blocking
Characterization
Design
Theatrical production

Anchor Standards

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

COS Examples

Examples: Laban effort shapes to enhance movement, Stanislavski method for character development, Alexander technique for breath and body control

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