Students will demonstrate their ability to memorize and improve their character development skills by performing a monologue in front of the class.
Class Level:
Beginning High School Drama Class
Prior Experience:
The class has already completed voice and diction and motion units where they have learned the correct techniques in speaking, projection, and movement. They have also already picked out monologues to work on.
Content Standard One: Script writing by improvising, writing, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
Content Standard Two: Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions.
Content Standard Six: Comparing and integrating art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, and visual arts, and new art forms.
Educational Objective: Students will demonstrate their ability to memorize lengthy monologues by completing memorization exercises and a memorization quiz.
Educational Objective: Students will demonstrate their ability to find different tactics for their characters by making a list of tactics they could use in their own monologues.
Educational Objective: Students will demonstrate their applied learning and monologue practice by performing their full monologue alone in front of the class.
