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Possible Movies to Use and Characters to Focus On:
Indiana Jones (Indiana, Father, Nazis)
Ten Things I Hate About You (Kat, Patrick, Bianca, Joey, Cameron and Michael)
Star Wars I (Anakin, his Mother, Obi Wan)
Life is Beautiful (Father, Mother and Son)
Dead Poet\u2019s Society (Mr. Keating, Neil Perry, Todd Anderson, Charlie Dalton, Knox Overstreet<\/p>\n
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Lesson Directions<\/h4>\n
Anticipatory Set\/Hook
When all the students are in the classroom, without speaking, turn off the lights in the classroom. Set up a projector on the ground to project a large area of light against an unblocked wall. Then, still without speaking, bring 4-5 students up to stand in the light. By the time you have gotten the 4-5 students to stand in the light, the others should be quiet and wondering what is going on.<\/p>\n
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TEACHING PRESENTATION:<\/h4>\n
\u2022 Whisper to the students standing in the light that you are going to give them 10 extra credit points if they help you with this activity.
\u2022 Ask the other students how they think the students in the light are feeling right now from what they can see of their shadows.
\u2022 Once you have let a few students respond tell the rest of the class what you already told the students in the light.
\u2022 Ask the students standing in the light how they were feeling.
\u2022 Did the class get it right? How did they know? Or why didn\u2019t they get it right?
\u2022 Begin a discussion about body language.
\u2022 What is body language?
\u2022 Body language lets us communicate how we are feeling, or our attitudes, without words.
\u2022 When do you use body language?
\u2022 Every day! All the time!
\u2022 Why is body language helpful?
\u2022 It lets us communicate how we feel without words.
\u2022 Have the students in the light then demonstrate a few examples of body language
\u2022 Happy, Sad, Excited, Tired etc.
\u2022 As for more volunteers to do the same activity. Repeat a few times to allow many students to explore body language. If time permits, let all students participate.
\u2022 Go back to the discussion about body language
\u2022 Ask if there are any questions about body language. (Check for understanding.) What do they notice about trying to portray or understand body language?
\u2022 What are the differences between gestures and body language?
\u2022 Gestures are character specific, make a character more real, specific traits that help audience members remember a character. Body language shows a character\u2019s emotions.
\u2022 How would we use body language in theatre? Why is body language important?
\u2022 Audience members won\u2019t know how our characters our feeling if we don\u2019t show them. Audience members in the back can\u2019t see our faces, so it\u2019s important that we use body language to show our character\u2019s emotions.
\u2022 Ask for a volunteer. Have them demonstrate any emotion. Ask the class what they see. Have them guess what emotion it is. Repeat with different students.
\u2022 Pass out the Body Language Worksheet and tell students to watch the body language in these different scenes. Instruct students to fill out the worksheet for each clip they watch, including the name of the character and their observations, and most importantly to write down each character\u2019s emotion.
\u2022 Play the different clips from the same movie or various movies and allow students time to respond.<\/p>\n
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CLOSURE:<\/h4>\n
Discuss the answers as a class.
\u2022 Why did students get the responses they did? What different aspects indicated certain emotions?<\/p>\n
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ASSESSMENT:<\/h4>\n
Have students turn in the worksheets as their assessment. Points will be awarded based on completeness of worksheet, not on correctness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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