CONTENT STANDARD 1: script writing by improvising, writing, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history
CONTENT STANDARD 2: Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions
CONTENT STANDARD 3: Designing and producing by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions
CONTENT STANDARD 5: Researching by evaluating and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices
CONTENT STANDARD 7: Analyzing, critiquing, and constructing meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions
CONTENT STANDARD 8: Understanding context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and the present.
Enduring Understandings
-In the process of studying and analyzing the different components of the Commedia Dell’Arte time period in history the students will be better able to understand the influences this time period has on theater and comedy today by analysis and compare and contrast.
Essential Questions
What influences does Commedia Dell’Arte have on society today? What are different examples of modern stock characters? What is the importance of working together as a team? What makes a good performance? What bearing can research and contextualization have on character development? How does your objective inform your choices? How do you maintain a physically and emotionally safe environment in your classroom? How can an actor apply, in real life, the historical information gained into a live performance?
Learning Objective-Students will be able to understand the role movement plays in creating Commedia Dell’Arte characters by demonstrating the differences in characters walks through participating in an improvised scene.
Learning Objective- Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of plays influenced by Commedia Dell’ Arte by reading a section of Tartuffe and completing a comprehensive worksheet.
Learning Objective- Student will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of Commedia Del’Arte’s characters by creating a mask that is well researched taking into consideration status, power, and animal like nature.
Learning Objective- Student will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of Commedia Del’Arte’s characters by creating a mask that is well researched taking into consideration status, power, and animal like nature.
Learning Objective- Students will demonstrate knowledge of the conventions of Commedia performing by outlining a 2 minute improvised scene using dialogue.
Learning Objective-Students will demonstrate knowledge of commedia characters and rules of improvisation by rehearsing their improvised scenarios in their acting troupes.
Learning Objective- Students will demonstrate their understanding of Commedia Dell’Arte by performing improvised scenarios in costume and with masks in front of the class.
