Written Response format requirements
Every written assignment you turn in MUST meet these requirements totaling 40 points of your final grade. I reserve the right to not grade any assignment not meeting these requirements.
Class Documents
Theatre contract
How to Rehearse drama
Rehearsal Expectations
Theatre 1 Assignments
Check here for the downloadable documents for each assignment. You can click on the corresponding week on the calendar for each week’s work.
1-Writing Assignments Unit
1- Writing Assignment: “No Place Like Home” by Kathleen Smith Belcher
no-place-like-home
Read and annotate the article together as a class and write a one-page response to the question.
Response question: Citing the article as evidence, discuss why theatre is such a welcoming place for everyone.
2- Tony Tuesday Assignment
Response 1 Due: Dec 9 by 11:59 PM
Response 2 Due: May 26 by 11:59 PM
Tony Tuesday response
3- Actor Preparedness Unit
1- Parts of a Theater
Learn all the parts of a theater building and be able to identify each part.
Parts of a theatre glossary
2- Slate
Write a professional slate to perform in class:
Name, age, Title, Author
How to Slate in an Audition
3- Base Garment/Makeup
Learn how to build a base for your costumes and how to apply basic stage makeup
Actor Preparedness Kit
4- Theatre Etiquette
Learn how to behave in a theatre and the jobs every person performs
Theatre Etiquette
5- Warm Ups/Improv Unit
Learn how to do physical and verbal warm ups as well as how to play improv games
5 Unbreakable Rules of Improv
6- Enunication/Projection Unit
1- Tongue Twister
Choose a tongue twister, memorize, perform in class using correct pronuniciation and enunciation.
7- Monologue Unit
Learn how to analyze a monologue, beats and chunks for line interpretation and characterization. Memorize a one minute monologue, perform in class. Use monologue to audition for Senior One Acts.
Read and analyze Lemon Sky together in class.
Lemon Sky monologue
8- Stanislavsky Unit
1- Stanislavsky Method
Choose a part of the Method to research and present in class in an interesting way
the-stanislavsky-system-the-process
2- Script analysis
Read and code You Can’t Take It With You as a class
3- Research
Build a google doc for research and notes
4- Character analysis
Learn how to build character using Stanislavsky’s worksheet
CHARACTER_ANALYSIS_WORKSHEET
5- Pace
Learn pace 0-7 and how to apply pace to scenes and bodies
6- Tracker
Learn how to build a tracker for all actor needs
Set-tracker
Props-tracker
scene-tracker
7- Rehearsals/Blocking
Learn how to run as an actor in rehearsals and write blocking in script
8- Perform
Perform the show in class