Lesson 4: Rehearsal

Standards:

Standard 7-8.T.CR.3: Use form and structure to create a scene or play with a beginning, middle, and end that includes full character development, believable dialogue, and logical plot outcomes.

Essential Questions:

How do you read a script?

How do we translate the story structure into our performance on stage?

Enduring Understandings:

Students will understand how to interpret and read a script.

Students will understand how to perform the learned story structure through the use of the actor’s tools they know.

Objective:

Students will rehearse a broken fairy tale that will be performed in a future class through the interpretation of a script and use of context clues to create a staged performance.

Materials:

A bucket to pull scripts out of

Plays that they wrote in the first lesson

Rubric

Instruction:

HOOK: (15 minutes)

• Telephone stories: 

  • Students will recreate the telephone stories that they wrote on the first day of class. 

    • Have one student read the story
    • Have the number of characters (that number should be written on the top of the page if they followed directions) go up on the stage. 

    • Have them act out the story as it is read out loud. 

      • Repeat this process. 

INSTRUCTION: (10 minutes)

• Explain the project: 

  • We are going to act out some of these scripts that you have created! This is so you can see the wonderful work that you have created! 

  • It is also GREAT feedback to see how people are interpreting your script. 

    • Was it how you wanted it to be read? Does it need more work?  
    • We can not act out everyone’s script. I am sorry we do not have time. 
  • If the students want to have their script in the running for potential picking, have them write their name on a slip of paper and throw it in the bucket. 
  • Choose scripts until all the people in the class have been involved in a show. 
• Have them sit in their groups. 

• Explain the following steps: 

  • You are going to have 20 minutes to work.

    • This means cast it, and get some blocking down. 

  • You are then going to have 20 minutes where you are going to focus on your story structure.

    • If something is the climax I want it to feel like the climax! 
    • If something is the rising action it should not surpass the excitement of the climax! 
• Take the students to the auditorium.

REHEARSE: (40 minutes)

• Start a 30 minute timer

  • Focus on blocking

• Start a 30 minute timer

  • Focus on story structure.

CLEAN UP: (5 minutes)

• What about this experience was helpful to your understanding of story structure? 
• What parts of the story were the hardest to create in your scene? 
• Clean up 
• Did they earn a letter?