Beginning Acting
| Objective: | Students will demonstrate their acting ability by performing a scene from a play. |
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| Subject: | Acting Skills & Techniques |
| Class Level: | Beginning |
| Main Concepts: | voice, movement, characterization, objectives |
| National Standards: | 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: | 90 minute lessons |
| Author: | Bonnie Hunt |
Lesson Plans
Students will demonstrate the ability to work in groups and involve each member of the group by creating a tower as a collaborative project.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the importance of creating and telling interesting stories by identifying the importance of 12 Angry Men, and why we would want to tell this story to our audience.
Students will demonstrate their ability to understand and create character by creating a character background analysis for their character in 12 Angry Men.
Students will demonstrate and understanding of objectives and tactics and their importance to acting by identifying the objective and possible tactics for their character in 12 Angry Men.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the uses of movement to create clarity in a story by blocking and creating stage pictures for their scene of 12 Angry Men.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of voice control and its relation to acting and character development by rehearsing their scenes for 12 Angry Men using voice control and variety.
Author's Notes:
This unit is meant to follow a unit just on voice and also on pantomime/movement. It culminates in the performance of a scene from 12 Angry Men. Another play may be used instead. There is no final evaluation scoring guide created for this unit, so a teacher would have to create their own.