Content/Performance Standards Addressed

Benchmark for Student Achievement

Students will be able to:

- Trust – building a risk-free environment

- Creating meaning through gesture: movement

- Advanced improvisation/analysis of humorous performance

- Performance of duets, monologues, ensemble scripted scenes including those that require conveying of motion

· share the “spotlight” in improvised and scripted scenes

· understand basic blocking concepts.

· use facial expressions, gesture and inflection to convey. meaning.

· memorize brief scenes (lines and blocking).

· participation – theater games

· graded performances

· written self-analysis

· metacognitive reflection on videotaped scenes

- performance of duets, monologs and ensemble scripted scenes

· understand conceptual blocking for meaning.

· develop character in scripted scenes (character analysis).

· memorize scenes of moderate length.

· Graded performances

· Written self-analysis

· Metacognitive reflection on videotaped scenes

- duets, monologs, ensemble, scripted scenes including one Shakespearean/Elizabethan selection

· understand subtext.

· use various resources to understand and perform Elizabethan dams.

· analyze the motivation of a character by “reading into” a text.

· memorize longer scenes including those in Elizabethan English

· Graded performances

· Written self-analysis

· Metacognitive reflection on videotaped scenes

- performance of duets, monologs and ensemble scripted scenes including one

ten-minute play selection-(full-stage production with audio-visual support, when auditorium is available)

· remain in character throughout an extended scene

· project vocally

· use gesture and facial expression to reach a larger audience

· memorize extended scenes including one-act, ten-minute plays

· graded performances

· written self analysis

· metacognitive reflection on videotaped scenes