Vocal Viewpoints

Objective: 

The students will demonstrate their ability to apply the vocal viewpoints to portray character, emotion, location, and story/plot by performing a reading of a children’s storybook.

Class Level: 

Intermediate

Main Concepts: 

vocal anatomy, breathing, articulation, dynamic, tempo, pitch, timbre, architecture

1994 National Standards:     

CONTENT STANDARD 2: Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions.

Description: 

Students learn and practice several vocal concepts and use those skills to perform a children’s story book.

Lesson Plans

Lesson 1: Anatomy, Breathing, and Articulators

The students will gain an understanding of breath support and vocal anatomy by participating in breathing exercises and completing an anatomy diagram worksheet. They will demonstrate their knowledge of articulation and diction by writing and performing their own tongue twister.

Lesson 2: Dynamic, Tempo, and Pitch

Students will demonstrate their ability to alter their vocal dynamic, tempo, and pitch by participating in an improv exercise.

Lesson 3: Gesture

The students will demonstrate their ability to use varying tone to express vocal gesture with their voice by performing a short contentless scene.

Lesson 4: Timbre and Shape

Students will demonstrate their knowledge of vocal timbre and shape by passing off an impersonation of someone else.

Lesson 5: Repetition and Kinesthetic Response

The students will demonstrate their understanding of repetition and kinesthetic response by participating in a series of viewpoints activities.

Lesson 6: Architecture

The students will demonstrate their understanding of projection by utilizing the vocal viewpoint of architecture to say a line from a book.

Lesson 7: Practice

The students will demonstrate their ability to utilize the nine vocal viewpoints into a performance by practicing reading their story and applying each of them.

Lesson 8: Storytelling Performance

The students will demonstrate their ability to apply the vocal viewpoints to portray character, emotion, location, and story/plot by performing a reading of a children’s storybook of their choice.

Vocal Viewpoints Unit of Lessons.Justine Banks