{"id":5214,"date":"2017-05-26T17:35:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T17:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?page_id=5214"},"modified":"2017-05-26T17:35:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T17:35:48","slug":"introduction-to-childrens-theatre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?page_id=5214","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Children\u2019s Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lesson #1 &#8211; Introduction to Children\u2019s Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE:<\/p>\n<p>Students will demonstrate their ability to work together and decide upon a general CT topic by developing a theme and title for their own CT performance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MATERIALS NEEDED:<\/p>\n<p>5 or 6 white board markers or chalk<\/p>\n<p>Strips of paper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>HOOK:<\/p>\n<p>Have students close their eyes and imagine themselves as 1<sup>st<\/sup> graders (6 years old.) Guide their memory with these and\/or other questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What was your favorite toy?<\/li>\n<li>What was your favorite activity?<\/li>\n<li>Who was your best friend?<\/li>\n<li>Watch yourself play \u2013 Allow the child in your head to freely make choices. What is your six-year-old self doing?<\/li>\n<li>Who was your hero?<\/li>\n<li>What was your favorite story?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have students open their eyes.\u00a0 Without talking out loud about their mental journey into the past, have each student come to the board and write one to three words that expresses their childhood. (5 or 6 at a time depending on how many markers are available)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>STEP ONE:<\/p>\n<p>Have students look at the board.\u00a0 What ideas are connected?\u00a0 Circle words the students find interesting. Erase duplicating ideas.\u00a0 Allow students to discuss why the items on the board are important to younger children.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>STEP TWO:<\/p>\n<p>Hand out five strips of paper to each student and have him\/her write down three to five children\u2019s books or stories that has come to mind or that they loved when they were young.\u00a0 Have them fold the strips and place into a container as the teacher walks around the room.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>STEP THREE:<\/p>\n<p>Call for two volunteers.\u00a0 Have each of them choose a strip of paper.\u00a0 The title of the story on the paper will be the basis of their improv character.\u00a0 They are not allowed to say the name of the book or any character in it, but they must make choices based on the title.\u00a0\u00a0 Even if they do not know the story, the title will act as clues to their choices.\u00a0 The class will then start a game of FREEZE.\u00a0 When someone calls <em>freeze,<\/em> he\/she will take a strip of paper using a new story title to start the next scene after they have tapped out one of the actors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>STEP FOUR:<\/p>\n<p>Explain to the students that they played <em>Freeze<\/em> with titles of children\u2019s stories to help them remember and get the ideas flowing so as a class, we can now decide on a theme\/topic for our Children\u2019s Theatre performance. Explain there must be a theme.\u00a0 They can either choose an author like Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstien, Hans Christen Andersen, or an idea, like Animal stories, Princess stories, Fairytales, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Erase the board and start a new list of ideas for titles.\u00a0 Tell the students some of the titles from past years titles to help them understand the type of title they need to create:\u00a0 <em>Shades<\/em> <em>of Shel Silverstein; A Fistful of Fairytales; Dr. Seuss, Out of the Hat; Red White and Seuss; Bedtime Favorites; Magic, Monsters and More; Princesses; Animal Tales; An Afternoon with Andersen <\/em>(Hans Christen).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Write down all the ideas the students shout out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>STEP FIVE:<\/p>\n<p>Start to narrow the list having students decide which titles should stay on the board. When there are around three titles left, have students actually vote for the favorite. Once a title has been voted on and secured, erase all other titles and write the final title in large lettering on the Board.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CLOSURE:<\/p>\n<p>Explain homework assignment: Students must bring at least two children\u2019s story books to the next class period that fits the theme.\u00a0 It will be worth 20 points to have the actual books or hard copy from the internet with them.\u00a0 They will get NO POINTS for just having an idea in their head; they must show the book to get the points.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ASSESSMENT:<\/p>\n<p>Students can be assessed by having created an actual theme and title for the pending elementary performances.\u00a0 These can be used to create advertising for the performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesson #1 &#8211; Introduction to Children\u2019s Theatre \u00a0 EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE: Students will demonstrate their ability to work together and decide upon a general CT topic by developing a theme and title for their own CT performance. &nbsp; MATERIALS NEEDED: 5 or 6 white board markers or chalk Strips of paper &nbsp; HOOK: Have students close &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5215,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5214\/revisions\/5215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}