Basic Pantomime Skills
| Objective: | Students will demonstrate a knowledge of movement, gesture, and emotion as used in pantomime by performing a two-minute pantomime. |
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| Subject: | Movement & Pantomime |
| Class Level: | Beginning |
| Main Concepts: | acting with your body |
| National Standards: | CONTENT STANDARD 2: Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions. |
| Description: | These are 90 min lesson plans. |
| Author: | Bonnie Hunt |
Lesson Plans
Students will understand the importance of relaxation and movement as it helps them portray ideas and emotions in acting by participating in several relaxation/movement activities.
Students will understand the use of face and body to convey emotion by participating in several activities where they portray and guess the emotions of others.
Students will understand how gestures convey ideas in pantomime. They will demonstrate this through participation in several activities and by writing what gestures they will use in their pantomime to help convey the ideas in their story.
Students will demonstrate a knowledge of movement, gesture, and emotion as used in pantomime by reviewing 3 other students performances and by performing their two minute pantomime for the class.
Author's Notes:
A teacher will need to create his/her own final performance rubric.