Students will demonstrate their ability to understand the qualities of voice and diction by performing a poem and puppet show.
Class Level:
Beginning
Main Concepts:
Voice, Diction, Volume, Rate, Tone, Pitch, Emotion in voice and body, effective communication
1994 National Standards:
CONTENT STANDARD 1: Script writing by improvising, writing, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
CONTENT STANDARD 2: Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions.
CONTENT STANDARD 3: Designing and producing by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions.
Description:
Voice and Diction concepts are taught and then applied with a poem performance and then puppet show. The voice and diction unit is to be used in a beginning theatre class with ninety minute class periods.
Lesson Plans
Lesson 1: Intro to Voice and Diction Students will demonstrate their ability to use projection and diction in speaking by creating a tongue twister and teaching it to the class.
Lesson 2: Rate and Pitch Students will demonstrate their ability to control their voice by performing a nursery rhyme.
Lesson 4: Interpreting Poems Students will demonstrate their understanding of scoring a poem by beginning to score their own and working on their poem in pairs.
Lesson 5: Movement with Poems Students will demonstrate their ability to incorporate effective hand gestures or movement in their poems.
Lesson 6: Performing Poems Students will demonstrate their understanding of vocal characteristics used when speaking on stage by performing a poem.
Lesson 7: Making Puppets Students will demonstrate their ability to understand storyline by creating a storyline and characters and begin to make puppets that go along with their story.
Lesson 8: Performance Day Students will demonstrate their ability to utilize voice and diction concepts by performing their puppet show.
Lesson 9: Performance Part 2 and Quiz Students will demonstrate their ability to further understand voice and diction by performing their puppet show and taking a short quiz.
