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Course
Description: In
this class, we will work with a lot of theatre terminology used in putting
a production together. We will work with improvisation, graded scenes,
plot, and actually put together a children’s theatre, one-act, and/or
melodrama production. It is almost entirely a performance-based class.
Prerequisite:
You must have had either scored a C or better in an introductory course in
drama at a previous high school, or have scored a C or better in
Introduction to Drama here at JCHS, as well as having obtained my
permission to enroll in this class.
Text:
There is no text. The script used will vary depending on the semester and
which play we are working on.
General outline of semester:
(may be altered slightly due to semester length)
1- Review of pertinent
material from Introduction to Drama (approximately three weeks)
- stage areas and
directions
- blocking
- movement
- handling of props
- 5-prop improvised scenes
- students divide into
groups, choose a published scene, block, characterize, memorize,
rehearse, and present for a grade.
2- *Children’s Play
work: (will take the majority of the rest of the semester)
- teacher assign parts in
children’s play
- block
- rehearse
- characterize
- costume
- memorize
- perform in a children’s
play at area elementary schools
3- Original Scene
(approximately two weeks)
- review plot
- students divide into
groups, write scenes, block, rehearse, memorize, characterize, and
perform for a grade. This is to keep sharp imaginations, for further
experience and confidence, and to develop yet another character.
4- Final Scene (last
two weeks of each semester)
- students divide into
groups, choose any published scene, block, rehearse, memorize,
characterize, and perform for a grade. This will be the absolute best,
final product the student is capable of.
5- Each student will be
required to read one play this semester. Toward the end of the
semester, an oral summary of the play and an analysis of one of the
characters will be due. This will be a play you will choose from a
list I have compiled. An assignment sheet will be forthcoming.
Supplies needed:
Paper, pencil, and student agenda.
Grading:
(90-100=A, 80-89=B, 70-79=C, 60-69=D, Below=F) I
do not round grades up.
- Daily
Participation/Citizenship grade
- Improvisational scenes
- attendance (absences/tardies)
prompt attendance is expected. *The bulk of the grade comes from
participating in class which requires attendance. All absences, excused or
otherwise, will have a negative effect on the student's participation
grade, because there is no possible way to recreate the events that happen
with the entire class during a 90-minute period. A student who is
not present, is not participating. (Lectures, discussions, group
activities, rehearsals, scene presentations, video-watching, etc., are
missed when a student is absent.) This will not have a noticeable
impact on the grade of the student who occasionally misses, only the grade of
the chronically absent student.
- attitude
- preparedness
- Graded scenes
- Attendance and
involvement in the children’s theatre tour and other plays produced
**Some evening work may
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