Instructional Units
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Objective: The students will demonstrate their understanding of characterization by incorporating the skills learned in this unit in a final scene performance.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Intermediate
Concepts: relationships, objectives, tactics, physicality
Objective: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of acting in a scene from a play by reading, rehearsing, and performing a 5-7 minute comedic scene.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Intermediate
Concepts: Objectives, tactics, characterization, room conflict, secrets, sensory/memory recall, and listening.
Objective: Students will demonstrate their abilities to perform Shakespeare by choosing a performance piece, preparing the piece through translation and scoring, blocking the piece, and performing a Shakespeare monologue or scene.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Intermediate
Concepts: William Shakespeare, classical acting, interpretation, text analysis, competition
Objective: Students will demonstrate an understanding of acting skills by performing a duo scene.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Intermediate
Concepts: stage directions, objectives and tactics, character development, physicality, vocal use and variety, connection to breath, stage pictures
Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of dramatic text and their ability to create character, relationship, dialogue, and action by writing original 10 to 15 minute long scripts.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Advanced
Concepts: Dramatic structure, character analysis, text analysis, relationship, conflict, dialogue
Objective: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the Six Elements of Drama by analyzing a film.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Beginning
Concepts: Play analysis, plot structure, identifying themes
Objective: Students will demonstrate their ability to audition for professional productions or college departments by participating in a mock audition.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Advanced
Concepts: scriptwork, résumé, characterization, interviews
Objective: Students will demonstrate their ability to be effective auditioners by performing two contrasting 60 second monologues.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Beginning
Concepts: Michael Shurtleff’s 12 guideposts, Types of Auditions, What to expect at an Audition, Choices of Materials for auditions
Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of basic acting skills by rehearsing and performing a 5-minute contemporary duo scene.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Beginning
Concepts: Objectives and tactics, vocal flexibility, breathing, trusting your instincts, scene work, character analysis, and acting basics
Objective: Students will demonstrate a knowledge of movement, gesture, and emotion as used in pantomime by performing a two-minute pantomime.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Beginning
Concepts: acting with your body
Objective: Students will demonstrate their acting ability by performing a scene from a play.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Beginning
Concepts: voice, movement, characterization, objectives
Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of basic acting skills by performing a scene with a partner.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Intermediate
Concepts: Pushing through to objectives using different tactics and pushing through the obstacles
Objective: Students will exhibit their ability to develop a character and to interact with other students on stage by performing a five-minute scene with a partner.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Intermediate
Concepts: objectives, tactics, movement, and context
Objective: Student’s will demonstrate their understanding of the aspects of children’s theatre by writing and performing a small play based on a fairy tale to elementary school children.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Intermediate
Concepts: The art of the story. Acting in children’s theatre. Writing a fairy tale for children in a unique way, and performing it. The art of performing for children.
Objective: Students will display their knowledge of Commedia Dell Arte by turning in their written outlines, performing their scenes and assessing the scenes of their fellow classmates.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Intermediate
Concepts: commedia del arte, acting commedia characters, theatre history
Objective: The students will demonstrate their understanding of contemporary monologues by performing one for the class.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Beginning
Concepts: memorization, acting alone, characterization
Objective: Students will demonstrate a knowledge of basic costume design and history by presenting a research board and a design for a play studied by the class.
Subject: Technical Theatre
Class Level: Beginning
Concepts: costume research, design
Objective: Students will be demonstrate their creative abilities by developing a director's book.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Advanced
Concepts: script analysis, design analysis
Objective: The students will display their ability to make designs for a show by creating at least one set design, costume design, lighting design, prop design, and make-up design for The Odd Couple (female version).
Subject: Technical Theatre
Class Level: Intermediate
Concepts: overview of the major theatrical design elements
Objective: The students will demonstrate their directing skills by directing a one-act play of their choice.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Advanced
Concepts: script analysis, production design, acting objectives and tactics, director’s concept
Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of Dramaturgy by leading a research-based discussion on either a scene or a film clip.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Advanced
Concepts: Appreciation, Research, Design, Leadership, presentation
Objective: Students will demonstrate their improvisation skills by participating in various activities and assignments that require students to use their improv skills.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Beginning
Concepts: thinking on your feet, making choices, acting without a script
Objective: Students will demonstrate through daily and final performance of contentless scenes an understanding of the importance of the principles explored in the improvisational unit and how they can be used in scene work.
Subject: Theatre
Class Level: Intermediate
Concepts: taking risks, trust, spontaneous acting
Objective: Students will demonstrate their ability to think and work as designers as they interpret and create set designs for a particular scene of a play.
Subject: Technical Theatre
Class Level: Intermediate
Concepts: Students will come to an understanding of close readings and concept analyses of scripts; obtain a basic, working knowledge of the elements of design; and create sketches, renderings, and models of their scenic design.
Objective: The students will demonstrate their understanding of the technical aspect of theater lighting by creating a basic lighting design for a scene and by participating in a lighting tech showcase.
Subject: Technical Theatre
Class Level: Intermediate
Concepts: aims of lighting, knowledge of lighting instruments, colors, light & cue plot, control (manual vs. rigging)