{"id":4053,"date":"2015-05-27T18:51:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T18:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2015-05-27T18:51:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T18:51:43","slug":"theatre-as-an-art-form-devising-a-class-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?p=4053","title":{"rendered":"Theatre as an Art Form &#8211; Devising a Class Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Objective:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Students will demonstrate their ability to write and perform a group script by performing a class devised piece based on Knuffle Bunny Free or The Ox Cart Man.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Class Level<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/h4>\n<p>Beginning; unit can be used for 1st or 2nd grade. All lessons are 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Main Concepts:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<p>collaboration, devising, rhythm, pantomime, improvisation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Description:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Students learn basic theatre skills by working together to create a play based on a storybook.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Lesson Plans<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lesson 1: Introducing Story and Devising<\/p>\n<p>Students will demonstrate their ability to begin to engage with the story in Knuffle Bunny Free\/The Ox Cart Man by participating in a reading of the book and discussion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lesson 2: Rhythm and Story<\/p>\n<p>Students will discover qualities of movement inspired by Knuffle Bunny Free\/Ox Cart Man by participating in the rhythmic journey activity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lesson 3: Pantomime<\/p>\n<p>Students will begin to apply movement to telling parts of Knuffle Bunny Free\/The Ox Cart Man by participating in situation pantomime game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lesson 4: Improvisations<\/p>\n<p>Students will put speech to their pantomimes to develop scenes based on Knuffle Bunny Free\/The Ox Cart Man by participating in scenario improvisations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lesson 5: Putting it Together<\/p>\n<p>Students will demonstrate their ability to collaboratively decide the flow of their show by putting together the scenarios they improvised into one play.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lesson 6: Dress Rehearsal<\/p>\n<p>Students will demonstrate their ability to work together on solidifying their show by participating in a dress rehearsal of their class play.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lesson 7: Performance<\/p>\n<p>Students will demonstrate their ability to write and perform a group script by performing a class devised piece based on Knuffle Bunny Free\/The Ox Cart Man.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Utah Core Curriculum Language Arts First and Second Grade<\/strong>:<\/h4>\n<p>Identify beginning\/middle\/end, characters, setting, problem\/resolution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Unit Essential Questions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>What is collaboration?<\/p>\n<p>Why collaborate?<\/p>\n<p>How do we express an idea?<\/p>\n<p>Why do we create something new?<\/p>\n<p>How do we create something new?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Knuffle Bunny Free by Mo Willems<\/p>\n<p>The Ox Cart Man by Donald Hall<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow\u2019s Stages: Blueprints for Transforming Theatre<\/p>\n<p>Creative Drama in the Classroom and Beyond Eighth Edition by Nellie McCaslin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Theatre-as-an-Art-Form.Devising-a-Class-Play-Lessons.Brewster-Cotten-Rutter.docx\">Theatre as an Art Form.Devising a Class Play Lessons.Brewster, Cotten, Rutter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students will demonstrate their ability to write and perform a group script by performing a class devised piece based on Knuffle Bunny Free or The Ox Cart Man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}