In order to raise the level of production, increase participation, and that there be no false illusions concerning expectations, this contract has been established. Please read each item carefully, and check it off when finished.

         Introduction to Drama is the prerequisite course for the other advanced acting classes here at JCHS. A student must successfully (with a C or better) pass this course and display the necessary skills needed at the next level and have the instructor's permission to advance into Acting I. (That is, the student must have been a positive, and not a negative contributor to the class).

         This is a performance-based class. Students will perform/present scenes/activities almost daily, and a lack of doing so will result in loss of participation and/or other performance points.

         Each student will be required to read one play this semester. At the end of the semester, a written and oral summary of the play and an analysis of one of the characters will be due. This will be a play chosen from a list I have compiled. Failure to do this assignment will result in a one-letter-grade reduction on the student's final grade.

         Movies will be shown from time to time as we study the dramatic components of plot, comedy, tragedy, musical, and parody. These movies will be rated G, PG, or Pg-13.

         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. (Lectures, discussions, group activities, rehearsal, scene presentation, video watching, etc., are missed when a student is absent.)

I, the undersigned, have read the course syllabus as well as each of the above items. (Please return to Mr. Hagemeister.)