Improvisation
| Objective: | Students will demonstrate their improvisation skills by participating in various activities and assignments that require students to use their improv skills. |
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| Subject: | Improvisation - Acting |
| Class Level: | Beginning |
| Main Concepts: | thinking on your feet, making choices, acting without a script |
| 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. |
| Description: | 10th Grade Beginning Theatre 90 minute class period |
| Author: | Tara Brooks |
Lesson Plans
Students’ will demonstrate their understanding of improvisation by performing simple improvised activities, and by actively participating during class discussions.
Students will demonstrate their understanding of improvisation by observing a professional improv team, and writing a one page “free write” of what they observed.
Students will demonstrate their understanding of improvisation by performing a simple improvised monologue. Students will learn the technique of ad-libbing.
Students will demonstrate their skill of improvisation by performing an improvised scene.
Students will demonstrate their ability to use improvisation in scene acting by performing improvised scenes.
Students will gain an understanding of improvisation by performing simple pantomime scenes using improvisation.
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of improvisation games or theatre sports, by participating in improvisational games with the class.
Students will demonstrate their skill of improvisation by participating in an improvisational game of “Celebrity”. Students will need to demonstrate skills learned over the improvisation unit such as; quick thinking, pronunciation, ad-libbing, pantomime, exaggeration, etc.