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?
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
Design
Theatrical production
- motivation
- origin
- rising actions
- climax
- protagonist vs antagonist
- Alexander Technique
- diction
- consonants
- vowels
- motivated movement
- blocking
Design
Theatrical production
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
