Students will demonstrate their understanding of acting foundations by application to an informal performance of a contemporary scene with a partner.
Curriculum Placement:
This acting unit is intended for a beginning-level theatre class with eighty-minute class periods.
Prior Student Experience:
Students are expected to have only limited experience with play production. Basic knowledge regarding characters, scripts, and movement are introduced in this unit.
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 4: Directing by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for informal or formal productions.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE: Students will show their ability to synthesize confidence, creativity, and honesty by reading a short, original poem to their classmates.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE: Students will show their ability to write proper objectives and tactics by completing a basic scoring of objectives and tactics into their scripts.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE: Students will demonstrate their ability to react and listen to a scene partner by participating in improvisation exercises and rehearsal.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE: Students will show their ability to apply acting foundations to their performance by presenting their final scenes to the class.
