Lesson 5: Performance

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 perform a script?

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

Enduring Understandings:

Students will understand how to interpret, read, and perform 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 be able to create and perform an original script through various writing activities, learning about story structure, and learning to read a script.

Materials:

Rubric

Instruction:

HOOK:

• Welcome to class 

• Game: 

  • Zip, Zap, Zop 

    • Players stand in a circle.
    • One player, Player A, claps his hands, ending in a pointing position toward the direction of another player. Simultaneously Player A will say the nonsense word “Zip!”
    • Player B repeats this action, clapping and pointing at another player, Player C, while saying “Zap!”
    • Player C repeats this action, pointing at yet again another player while saying the word “Zop!”
    • Players do not need to follow any order can and point at any other player they choose, but they should follow the patter of “zip, zap, zop”

INSTRUCTION:

• Remind them that today we are performing our scenes. 
• Take their things and head to the auditorium. 

REHEARSE:

• Give the students 15 minutes to run their scenes and get set up for their performances. 

PERFORM:

• Students will perform their scenes. 
• Review the rubric and what we will be looking for. 

• Have the audience sit in the back of the front of the house.

  • Remind them that projection and articulation matters so that is why we are doing this. 
• Have each group perform. 

FEEDBACK: (10 minutes)

• Have students sit in the house and debrief on the performances 

  • What were some things that we learned that we put into practice here? 
  • Where do we have room for improvement? 
  • What did you enjoy? 
  • What still doesn’t make sense?

CLEAN UP: (5 minutes)

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