Students will demonstrate their ability to understand devised theatre and its process by creating a devised theatre piece to tour to elementary schools.
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 conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions
CONTENT STANDARD 4: Directing by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for informal or formal productions
Lesson 2: Community in Devised Theatre Students will demonstrate their ability to further understand community by participating in active discussions throughout the lesson.
Lesson 3: Trust/Storytelling Students will demonstrate their ability to tell stories by creating a soundless storyline and by coming up with a possible theme for the devised theatre piece.
Lesson 4: Choosing and Exploring a Theme Students will demonstrate their ability to explore the chosen theme by creating a story that has to do with that theme.
Lesson 6: Creation of Devised Theatre Piece Students will demonstrate their understanding of the theme by creating a monologue for a specific character in the devised theatre piece.
