Musical Pantomime
| Objective: | Students will demonstrate an understanding of musical pantomime by rehearsing and performing a musical pantomime performance. |
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| Subject: | Movement & Pantomime |
| Class Level: | Intermediate |
| Main Concepts: | Music, pantomime, characterization |
| 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. CONTENT STANDARD 7: Analyzing, critiquing, and constructing meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions. |
| Author: | Summer Lewis and Carolyn Pedersen |
Lesson Plans
Students will demonstrate an understanding of how music and story can be connected by completing a music brainstorming activity and participating in class activities and discussions.
Students will demonstrate an ability to create a story following the Aristotelian structure by completing and submitting a plot structure diagram.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of musical pantomime by working in class to develop their pantomime for preview.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of musical pantomime by previewing their pantomime for peers and observing and critiquing other partnerships.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of musical pantomime and performance techniques by performing their musical pantomime for the entire class and complete a self-reflection worksheet.
Author's Notes:
Prior knowledge of the basics of pantomime is needed.