Content Standard(s):
Arts Education 13) Rehearse and perform a formal drama/theatre work for an audience.
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Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
Process Components: Present
Essential Questions:
EU: Theatre artists share and present stories, ideas, and envisioned worlds to explore the human experience.
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Vocal
Movement
Characterization
Skills Assessed In introductory playwriting, the student improvises, writes, and rewrites monologues, scenes, and vignettes to convey predetermined intent and meaning. The use of props and costumes is encouraged as the students are expanding knowledge and moving towards the proficient stage of high school classes. Skill Examples:
The students will demonstrate their ability to create a character from a prop by performing a scene with different clothing props that represent a variety of different characters. Glasses, shoes, necktie, etc. Show students clips from BIg, Twilight Zone DEad Man's Shoes, and Steve Urkel/Stephan transformation. Students should be able to make the connection between adding a piece of clothing to change the character. They can relate it to almost as a "Superman" like transformation. This lesson is based on the lesson linked below:
http://www.kamplays.com/uploads/1/1/0/4/11040740/a_characters_shoes.pdf Students will write several scenes based on the character choices inspired by the different types of props and clothing. As in all performances, there is both teacher and peer critique and an actor's reflection tool.
English Language Arts 5. Evaluate rhetorical strategies used to develop central and supporting ideas in recorded or live presentations, including point of view, purpose, comparison, categories, and word meanings (figurative, connotative, and technical).
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Teacher Vocabulary:
5.
Rhetorical strategies
Central ideas
Supporting ideas
Recorded presentations
Live presentations
Point of view
Purpose
Comparison
Categories
Figurative word meaning
Connotative word meaning
Technical word meaning Knowledge:
5. Students know:
Speakers utilize specific rhetorical strategies in their presentations to convey meaning.
Rhetorical strategies that can develop central and supporting ideas include point of view, purpose, comparison, categories, and word choice.
Speakers develop the central idea of their presentation by including supporting details to further elaborate on the presentation's central meaning. Skills:
5. Students are able to:
Identify a speaker's rhetorical strategies related to point of view, purpose, comparison, categories, and word choice.
Evaluate an author's rhetorical choices related to point of view, purpose, comparison, categories, and figurative, connotative, and technical word meanings.
Evaluate how a speaker's rhetorical choices developed the central and supporting ideas of the presentation. Understanding:
5. Students understand that:
When creating and presenting a presentation, speakers make specific decisions about structure, format, and vocabulary to accurately convey their central and supporting ideas.
