ACTING SKILLS

Students will demonstrate their understanding of voice as a tool for character development by creating character voices and creating a cartoon in a small group project.

Unit Objective: Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of voice and diction by developing. They will represent at least 2 different characters in a radio program, using all 4 vocal variations (tempo, pitch, tone and volume), diction and projection.

Students will demonstrate their ability to create a voice for a character by creating podcasts in small groups.

Unit Objective: Students will demonstrate appropriate, creative use of their voices and bodies to create characters.

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.

Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of vocal techniques by preparing, recording, and sharing a radio broadcast script.

Subject: Applying the techniques of Viewpoints to a scene.

Unit Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of composition and the 9 elements of Viewpoints by performing group compositions.

Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of Uta Hagen’s Object Exercise by incorporating five of the ten exercises in a contentless scene.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of oppression, empathy, Boal techniques by creating and participating in Forum Theatre scenes.

Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of vocal qualities (rate, pitch, tone, diction, and projection) by designing a unique voice for a puppet and performing in an original, rehearsed puppet show.

Students will demonstrate their ability to manipulate voice to clearly portray an objective-driven character through the design and development of a puppet character in a short scene.

Objective: Students will be able to access and apply the Suzuki Method to their acting by using this method to perform their regional competition pieces.

Unit Objective: Students will be able to demonstrate character development and exploration by stepping into role as the superhero characters they have created on paper, utilizing tactics and objectives.

Unit Objective: Students will share their ability to tell a convincing and entertaining beginning-level story by telling to an elementary-aged audience and by first auditioning for the teacher.

Objective: Students will demonstrate their ability to tell stories and convey imagery by telling a children’s story.

Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding and exploration of Stanislavsky’s foundational acting system elements by incorporating them in a monologue or scene performance.

Unit objective: Students will be able to demonstrate their ability to honestly communicate in a Shakespeare scene by applying principles of acting/theatre including objectives, tactics, communication, vocal colors, and story arc in a performance of the Shakespeare scene.

Unit Objective: Students will demonstrate their growing understanding of Shakespeare’s plays and the play’s significance in our modern day world and basic Shakespearian acting techniques of vocal levels, punctuation, word coloring, and rhythm by taking a quiz and performing a 16 line Shakespeare monologue.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of The Second Circle, created by Patsy Rodenburg, and the importance of presence in performance by applying presence to diverse situations and performing a Shakespearean Sonnet in Second Circle.

Students will be able to make believable and authentic acting choices in scenes by analyzing the script text and exploring appropriate vocality, movement, and motivations.

Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of Shakespeare’s stories and themes by re-telling one of his plays in a dramatic stylized adaptation for the rest of the class.

Students will be able to identify and use projection, diction, and vocal variations of rate, pitch, tone, inflection and emphasis by performing a radio drama for their classmates.

Objective: Students will demonstrate their ability to develop a character voice in addition to using a puppet by making a sock puppet and performing a puppet show using an original script they have written.

Objective: Students will demonstrate an understanding of actor preparation towards performance by participating in a series of short activities culminating in entering the stage.

Unit Objective: Students will be able to identify many playwrights of the dramatic canon, as well as some of their most influential works by participating in research and analysis about the individual and performing one of their most famous works. Students will also broaden their understanding of playwriting and what makes a playwright by briefly researching some contemporary performance groups, and participating in contemporary performance practices/playwriting.

Students will be able to perform a rehearsed scene with a partner while demonstrating their understanding of stage rules and creating believable characters with objectives and tactics.

Students will demonstrate their ability to use various vocal techniques such as tone, rate, pitch, volume, enunciation, and projection by creating a script with characters and sound effects for a radio drama and then performing them as a group.

Students will demonstrate an understanding of musical theatre pedagogy by researching current practices, applying various vocal, dance, and acting techniques, and either performing a solo musical scene or doing a presentation on an influential musical in PechaKucha form.

Unit Educational Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of the basic principles of vocal technique by performing in a duet for the class.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of musical theatre by performing a musical theatre act with a song and body movement.

Students will demonstrate acting fundamentals (character development, objectives, tactics, motivation, blocking) by creating, rehearsing, and performing a musical theatre mash up scene.

Objective: The students will demonstrate their understanding of the various elements of musical theatre by putting on a musical theatre review in class.

Students will demonstrate acting fundamentals (character development, objectives, tactics, motivation, blocking) by creating, rehearsing, and performing a musical theatre mash up scene.

Objective:Students will be able to explore various movement techniques by creating a music video.

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the audition process by preparing for an audition as an actor and a casting director.

Students will be able to demonstrate their ability to show contrasting characters by mock-auditioning with two monologues.

Unit Objective: Students will demonstrate their ability to use vocal variety and techniques by performing a few different styles of lip sync.

Unit Objective: Students will understand essential concepts about voice and how to use their voices effectively when performing by presenting a dramatic reading.

Unit Objective: Students will demonstrate an understanding of dramaturgy by selecting a script and creating a casebook of supplemental materials and research for that show.

Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of the rules of improv by participating in an improv performance/competition. Description: Students learn the rules and guidelines for improv as well as several performance type improv games. Unit culminates in a "Comedy Sportz" type game.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of the skills of improvisation (establish a specific situation, listen, add conflict, plan less, and ‘yes,and’) by performing improvised scenes and reflecting on their understanding.

Unit Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of Greek theatre practices and style by participating in various exercises and culminating in a performance in the Greek style.

Unit Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of acting foundations by application to an informal performance of a contemporary scene with a partner.

Objective: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the elements of focus and their ability to focus on stage by performing an improvised scene.

UNIT OBJECTIVE: Students will demonstrate their ability to incorporate Japanese theatrical elements into an American Realism monologue by performing that monologue for the class.

Unit Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of the emotional connections between themselves and others by participating in scenes.

Unit Objective: Students will understand the conventions of the Commedia Dell’Arte time period by performing in an improvised scenario.

Objective: Student’s will demonstrate their understanding of the aspects of children’s theatre by writing and performing a small play based on a fairy tale to elementary school children.

Unit Objective: Students will be able to perform as a specific character by participating in numerous character-building activities and by performing as the character in a character picnic performance.