SCRIPTWORK

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.

Unit objective: Students will demonstrate their ability to create a character using only their voice by utilizing the skills of tone, timbre, rate, pitch, projection, and diction in a puppet show performance.

Students will demonstrate their ability to interpret and create believable characters through exploring textual analysis, performance, and dramatic criticism.

Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of script analysis by analyzing scripts together and presenting one of three possible analysis options: a set design, a monologue cutting, or blocking a beat of action.

Students will demonstrate their ability to analyze context and research historical and cultural facts about a stage or film production by creating a bulletin board that analyzes a production.

Student will demonstrate an understanding of Shakespearean Texts by scanning and performing William Shakespeare’s Crispian Speech and cold reading a Shakespeare scene.

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 consider their own inner thoughts and how they express those things by writing and performing a slam poem.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of script analysis and characterization by performing a scene from The Curious Savage.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of creating vivid worlds for the plays they are directing by leading the class on a walk-through of the world of their play.

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 demonstrate their understanding of interpretation in a personal narrative by writing a detailed narrative based on a given image and presenting their work in character.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of playwriting principles by writing a short play.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of a director’s role in a production by adapting and directing for the stage a 5-7 minute scene from a fairytale.

Students will demonstrate an ability to create an original story with believable characters and dialogue by writing and revising an original ten-minute scene.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of the elements of storytelling by performing their personal story for the class and writing a reflection.

Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of Medieval Theatre, playwriting, and getting a play up on its feet by participating in discussions, taking a quiz, writing a play, and performing a play.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of the basic concepts of playwriting by writing adapting a fairy tale.

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.

Objective: Students will demonstrate an understanding of theatre for social change by performing an adapted fairytale that targets problems elementary students face.

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 their understanding of dramatic text and their ability to create character, relationship, dialogue, and action by writing original 10 to 15 minute long scripts.

Objective: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the Six Elements of Drama by analyzing a film. ** This unit was originally written to culminate in a film analysis, but can be used with a theatre production analysis just as easily

Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of French Neoclassical playwriting by taking a comprehensive assessment and stage reading their final script.

Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of Dramaturgy by leading a research-based discussion on either a scene or a film clip.

Objective: Students will demonstrate ability to research cultural and historical information and analyze context in a dramatic text by creating a dramaturgical casebook for a short one-act play.

Objective: Students will demonstrate their ability to follow through with a directing concept by staging a two to three minute silent scene with music, costumes, and color to support their concept.

UNIT OBJECTIVE: The students will demonstrate their directing skills by creating a director’s book and directing a one-act play of their choice.

Objective: Students will demonstrate their ability to understand devised theatre and its process by creating a devised theatre piece to tour to elementary schools.

Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of the principles of acting in a scene by writing, rehearsing, and performing a 4-5 minute storybook scene.

Description: This unit was created for Improvisation class students; grades 9-12. No previous experience necessary. All lessons are 55 minutes long. This is the first unit of the improvisation class, taking place after the first day of class has passed.   Educational Objective: Students will share their ability to tell a convincing and entertaining beginning-level ...

Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of nonverbal communication by planning, recording, and presenting silent films.