Analysis using Aristotle’s Six Elements of Drama
| Objective: | Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the Six Elements of Drama by analyzing a film. |
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| Subject: | Playwriting & Script Analysis |
| Class Level: | Beginning |
| Main Concepts: | Play analysis, plot structure, identifying themes |
| National Standards: | CONTENT STANDARD 7: Analyzing, critiquing, and constructing meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.; CONTENT STANDARD 6: Comparing and integrating art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, and visual arts, and new art forms.; CONTENT CONTENT STANDARD 4: Directing by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for informal or formal productions. |
| Description: | PRIOR EXPERIENCE: None |
| Author: | Carlie Parkinson |
Lesson Plans
The students will demonstrate their knowledge of plot by participating in a group presentation of plot structure.
The students will demonstrate their knowledge of theme by identifying a theme for film presented in class.
The students will demonstrate their understanding of diction by performing a short Shakespearean puppet show.
The students will demonstrate their knowledge of characters by completing a “Myspace” profile for a character in a play read in class.
Students will demonstrate their understanding of music by performing a thirty-second melodrama.
Students will demonstrate their understanding of spectacle by designing scenery for “Spectacular, Spectacular”.
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the Six Elements of Drama by analyzing a film.