Students will demonstrate their ability to tell stories and convey imagery by telling a children’s story.
Class Level:
Intermediate class; 80-minute class period
Main Concepts:
facial expression, vocal expression, energy, movement
1994 National Standards:
CONTENT STANDARD 2: Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions. CONTENT STANDARD 6: Comparing and integrating art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, and visual arts, and new art forms. CONTENT STANDARD 8: Understanding context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and the present.
Description:
This unit can be used in any theatre class at any level of experience.
Lesson Plans
Lesson 1: Storytelling – Day 1 Students will demonstrate their ability to tell stories using body and movement by pantomiming a fairy tale for the class.
Lesson 2: Storytelling – Day 2 Students will demonstrate their ability to tell stories using voice and body to convey imagery by participating in activities and telling a children’s story.
Lesson 3: Storytelling – Day 3 Students will demonstrate their ability to tell stories using voice and body to convey imagery by participating in activities and telling a children’s story.
Lesson 4: Final Performance – Day 4 Students will demonstrate their ability to tell stories and convey imagery using voice and body by exemplifying facial expression, vocal expression, energy, movement, and complete commitment to story by telling a children’s story.
