Unit Introduction
Lesson Objective
Students will be able to discuss what they can learn from radio drama performance that can be useful to stage acting.
Hook
Play the following clip to 5:15.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKp7x7mOJ_s
Ask the students to describe what they heard.
Discussion
Build a discussion with the students around the following questions and answers:
- Ask the students what radio drama
- Ask students if they know when radio dramas were popular.
- Ask students what some popular radio drama genres were.
Essential Question
What can we learn from radio drama performance that can be useful to stage acting?
Introduce the Upcoming Unit
Inform the students that in the next several days they will be learning about creating characters by using vocal variations. They will be introduced to several vocal variations, and will choose at least 2 of those variations to portray characters in radio dramas. Some of them will perform larger roles that will require distinct vocal characteristics, and some of them will perform more than one role, which will require them to use vocal variety to make the voices sound different from each other.