Quarter

Content/Performance Standards Addressed

Benchmark for Student Achievement

Students will be able to:

Assessment

1

-          Trust building/creating a risk-free environment

-          Audience etiquette

-          Creating meaning through movement and gesture

-          Improvisation

-          Sensory awareness

-          “reading” other actors

-          come together as an acting troupe where trust and “bonding” encourage full participation in all activities.

-          demonstrate an improving ability to call upon “sense memory” as applicable to all activities and continuing growth as a theater arts student

-          student interviews/trust exercises

-          pantomime activities

-          script marking for oral interpretation

-          presentation of reader’s theater style performances

-          improv. games

-          metacognitive journal writing

2

-          blocking/stage direction/theater terms

-          necessary and interpretive actions/body positioning

-          motivation

-          subtext

-          memorization

-          exhibit a continually improving understanding of an actor’s motivation

-          interpret scripts for voice control and movement

-          exhibit a continually improving self-confidence leading to ease in performing in front of class members and invited classroom audiences

-          teacher directed blocking of scripted scenes

-          written interpretation of lines

-          script marking for movement

-          performance/memorization of scripted scenes

-          metacognitive journal writing

3

-          in-depth character study

-          duets

-          monologs

-          prefrmance of poetry

-          demonstrate an improving ability to work independently as well as in pairs as per presentations of monologues and duets.

-          exhibit a thorough ability to analyze a character in relation to a specific script or scene in question.

-          demonstrate an understanding of “spoken word” genre through writing and performance

-          written analysis of given characters including:

background, world-view, and off-stage behavior

-          memorization/performance of scripted scenes for two actors

-          memorization/performance of monologs and poems

-          metacognitive journal writing

4

-          duets

-          monologs

-          ensemble scenes

-          intro.to script writing

-          scenes from American film

-          exhibit an understanding of the parameters of the theater via the adaptation of film to the stage

-          demonstrate a basic understanding of script writing and direction

-          demonstrate both an ability and a desire to continue growing as a theater arts student in the upcoming  year'’ Actor Studio course

-          memorization/performance of duets, monologs, and scenes for more than two actors

-          creation/development of scripted scenes containing appropriate characterization, setting, plot, conflict, and resolution

-          memorization/performance of scenes from American film

-          metacognitive journal writing