Character Workshop

Educational Objective: Students will demonstrate the ability to perform characters by creating a short character skit based on fairy tale characters.

Educational Objective: Students will be able to showcase their characters’ motivations by performing an original monologue that comes from their character.

Educational Objective: Students will be able to discover and practice their character’s physical, emotional, and mental motivators by competing in a relay race as their character. Students will be able to perform their characters to be true and believable by participating in a classroom picnic as their characters and writing a reflection paper on their experience.

Educational Objective: Students will be able to create a character analysis which includes backstory and character motivations by performing character interviews and by participating in a graffiti wall.

Educational Objective: Students will demonstrate understanding of their character and the ability to stay in character by participating in Never Have I Ever/Ignominious Death as their characters.

Educational Objective: Students will be able to create characters by participating in a Where Space activity and recording their experiences and character discoveries on paper.

Educational Objective: Students will be able to discover more information about themselves and their character by taking a personality quiz and by doing a character runway walk.

Educational Objective: Students will explore how their character approaches others by performing a task-based scene between their characters.

Educational Objective: Students will be able to practice their monologues by working individually and with partners to improve their acting choices and performance confidence.