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Unit 15: Final Projects
Career Catalog Culmination Project - DUE DEC 15
FINAL SCENE - PERFORMED DEC 19-20
The Performance (80 points)
Creative Process (10 points)
Self-Evaluation Reflection (10 points)
FINAL SCENE - PERFORMED DEC 19-20
The Performance (80 points)
- You performance can be anything you want it to be. You must entertain us, challenge us, and demonstrate to us your talents and abilities. You can sing, dance, rap, perform a short play, read poetry, do performance art, etc.
- It can be original work or published material. You and your team are responsible for procuring the text. The choice of performance material must be school appropriate and is subject to approval.
- You must complete the Performance Proposal on or before Thursday, December 6.
- Each student is allotted 5 - 6 minutes for a solo performance.
- An additional 2 minutes per extra person is required (max 20 min).
- Groups are to be no larger than 8 people.
- If a student is helping in a scene beyond their primary performance, extra credit up to 20 points may be earned.
- You will have a maximum of 5 minutes to set-up and strike.
- The Evaluation Rubric has been provided to help guide your work.
Creative Process (10 points)
- You will submit a Creative Process Reflection on your blog on Friday, December 15. This reflection should explain what your performance piece is about, how you’re putting it together, and what some of your thoughts and influences are as you’re constructing the performance.
- Students are responsible for any props or costumes needed.
- Students will be given class time prior to the performance dates to rehearse and prepare sets, props, and costumes for their piece. Time outside of class will likely be necessary for rehearsals and preparations.
- Limited access to the theatre’s stock will be granted. Primarily, costumes should be derived from student’s own resources.
- Last minute requests the day-of the performance will not be fulfilled.
Self-Evaluation Reflection (10 points)
- You will provide a Self-Evaluation Reflection on your blog following your performance, no later than Friday, December 22, basing your comments on the Evaluation Rubric’s criteria.
Unit 14: Renaissance Theatre
Essential Questions:
What was the intended result of imposing neoclassical rules on playwrights?
What was the effect of the producer-to actor-to audience relationship in Elizabethan England?
How was commedia dell'arte rehearsed and performed?
Key Terms:
-apprentice
-box
-cazuela
-comedia
-companias de parte
-corral
-gallery
-grove system
-hireling
-lazzi
-masque
-neoclassical ideals
-patio
-perspective
-pit
-pole and chariot
-private theaters
-public theaters
-shareholders
-sides
-soliloquy
-tiring house
-unities
-yard
-zanni
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Mask design and creation
Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Theatre: warm-ups, read/analyze Midsummer scenes, acting exercises
Homework: memorize Midsummer scripts
Career Catalog: Production Manager
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, career catalog rubric, blog reflection
What was the intended result of imposing neoclassical rules on playwrights?
What was the effect of the producer-to actor-to audience relationship in Elizabethan England?
How was commedia dell'arte rehearsed and performed?
Key Terms:
-apprentice
-box
-cazuela
-comedia
-companias de parte
-corral
-gallery
-grove system
-hireling
-lazzi
-masque
-neoclassical ideals
-patio
-perspective
-pit
-pole and chariot
-private theaters
-public theaters
-shareholders
-sides
-soliloquy
-tiring house
-unities
-yard
-zanni
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Mask design and creation
Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Theatre: warm-ups, read/analyze Midsummer scenes, acting exercises
Homework: memorize Midsummer scripts
Career Catalog: Production Manager
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, career catalog rubric, blog reflection
Unit 13: Designers - Costumes
Essential Questions:
Detail the costume designer's objectives & the process by which he or she achieves them.
How do those objectives serve the production?
What the difference between realism & nonrealism in costume design.
Key Terms:
-build
-costume designer
-pull
-realism
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Design a series of costumes for Midsummer scene.
Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Theatre: warm-ups, rehearse Midsummer scenes, acting exercises
Homework: costume review
Career Catalog: Costume Designer
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, review rubric, career catalog rubric, blog reflection.
Detail the costume designer's objectives & the process by which he or she achieves them.
How do those objectives serve the production?
What the difference between realism & nonrealism in costume design.
Key Terms:
-build
-costume designer
-pull
-realism
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Design a series of costumes for Midsummer scene.
Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Theatre: warm-ups, rehearse Midsummer scenes, acting exercises
Homework: costume review
Career Catalog: Costume Designer
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, review rubric, career catalog rubric, blog reflection.
Unit 11: Ancient Greek & Roman Thetare
Essential Question:
What were the social and religious parameters of Greek and Roman theater? What are lasting features of Greek and Roman theatre that are still alive today?
Key Terms:
-agon
-amphitheater
-choregus
-chorus
-City Dionysia
-dominus
-new comedy
-old comedy
-orchestra
-pantomime
-parabasis
-parodos
-satyr play
-scaena
-theatron
-thespian
-trilogy
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: script writing
Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Theatre: warm-ups, acting exercises
Homework: puppet creation
Career Catalog: Technical Director
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, career catalog rubric, blog reflection
What were the social and religious parameters of Greek and Roman theater? What are lasting features of Greek and Roman theatre that are still alive today?
Key Terms:
-agon
-amphitheater
-choregus
-chorus
-City Dionysia
-dominus
-new comedy
-old comedy
-orchestra
-pantomime
-parabasis
-parodos
-satyr play
-scaena
-theatron
-thespian
-trilogy
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: script writing
Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Theatre: warm-ups, acting exercises
Homework: puppet creation
Career Catalog: Technical Director
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, career catalog rubric, blog reflection
Unit 10: Early Asian Theatre
Essential Questions:
What is the significance of the synthesis or integration of acting, mime, dancing, music, and text in Asian theatre?
What features of Asian theatre have transposed to Western theatre?
Key Terms:
-bunraku
-hanamichi
-hashigakari
-kabuki
-kathakali
-noh
-Peking (Beijing) opera
-platform stage
-shadow play
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Puppet design sketches
Classroom: lecture, articles, film-clips
Theatre: warm-ups, acting exercises
Homework: puppeteer review
Career Catalog: Puppeteer
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, review rubric, career catalog rubric, blog reflection
What is the significance of the synthesis or integration of acting, mime, dancing, music, and text in Asian theatre?
What features of Asian theatre have transposed to Western theatre?
Key Terms:
-bunraku
-hanamichi
-hashigakari
-kabuki
-kathakali
-noh
-Peking (Beijing) opera
-platform stage
-shadow play
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Puppet design sketches
Classroom: lecture, articles, film-clips
Theatre: warm-ups, acting exercises
Homework: puppeteer review
Career Catalog: Puppeteer
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, review rubric, career catalog rubric, blog reflection
Unit 8-9:
From Page to Stage
Essential Questions:
How do designers convey their thinking in the process of bringing a show to life?
Key Terms:
-scale model
-pitch
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Brainstorm and draft gobo designs
Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Homework: finalizing designs, build model of set design
Career Catalog: Stage Manager
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, career catalog rubric, blog reflection
How do designers convey their thinking in the process of bringing a show to life?
Key Terms:
-scale model
-pitch
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Brainstorm and draft gobo designs
Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Homework: finalizing designs, build model of set design
Career Catalog: Stage Manager
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, career catalog rubric, blog reflection
Unit 7: Designers - Lighting & Sound
Essential Questions:
How can the five elements of stage lighting be used to help achieve the objectives of lighting design?
How is sound reproduction and sound reinforcement used in a theatre?
Key Terms:
-automated lights
-backlighting
-batten
-blackout
-composition
-cue
-dimmer
-downlighting
-environmental sounds
-fade
focus
-follow spot
-fresnel
-gobo
-light plot
-motivated sounds
-pan
-reinforcement
-reproduction
-tilt
Creative Journal: Brainstorm sketches, story concept, set design sketches
Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Homework: light design review
Career Catalog: Lighting Designer
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, review rubric, career catalog rubric, blog reflection
How can the five elements of stage lighting be used to help achieve the objectives of lighting design?
How is sound reproduction and sound reinforcement used in a theatre?
Key Terms:
-automated lights
-backlighting
-batten
-blackout
-composition
-cue
-dimmer
-downlighting
-environmental sounds
-fade
focus
-follow spot
-fresnel
-gobo
-light plot
-motivated sounds
-pan
-reinforcement
-reproduction
-tilt
Creative Journal: Brainstorm sketches, story concept, set design sketches
Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Homework: light design review
Career Catalog: Lighting Designer
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, review rubric, career catalog rubric, blog reflection
Unit 6: Designers - Scenery
Essential Questions:
Detail the scene designer's objectives and the process by which he or she achieves them.
How do those objectives serve the production?
What the difference between realism and nonrealism in scene design?
Key Terms:
-downstage
-flat
-fly loft
-ground plan
-left stage
-props
-realism
-right stage
-scrim
-technical director
-upstage
-wagon
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Set design project inspiration collage
Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Theatre: warm-ups, acting exercises, Monologue Performances
Homework: set design review
Career Catalog: Set Designer
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, career catalog rubric, blog reflection, monologue performance rubric
Detail the scene designer's objectives and the process by which he or she achieves them.
How do those objectives serve the production?
What the difference between realism and nonrealism in scene design?
Key Terms:
-downstage
-flat
-fly loft
-ground plan
-left stage
-props
-realism
-right stage
-scrim
-technical director
-upstage
-wagon
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Set design project inspiration collage
Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Theatre: warm-ups, acting exercises, Monologue Performances
Homework: set design review
Career Catalog: Set Designer
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, career catalog rubric, blog reflection, monologue performance rubric
Unit 5: Theatre Spaces
Essential Questions:
Why is the relationship between the spectator and the performer important and how can that stage-to-audience relationship in the three most popular theatre architecture arrangements differ?
What is a multipurpose or black box theatre arrangement? Why might such a space be desirable?
Key Terms:
-aesthetic distance
-arena stage
-corral
-created of found space
-fly loft
-fourth-wall convention
-multifocus theater
-multimedia theater
-orchestra
-platform stage
-proscenium
-rake
-run
-thrust stage
-wagon stage
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Theatre architecture sketches Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Theatre: warm-ups, acting exercises
Homework: monologue edits
Career Catalog: Producer
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, review rubric, career catalog rubric, blog reflection
Why is the relationship between the spectator and the performer important and how can that stage-to-audience relationship in the three most popular theatre architecture arrangements differ?
What is a multipurpose or black box theatre arrangement? Why might such a space be desirable?
Key Terms:
-aesthetic distance
-arena stage
-corral
-created of found space
-fly loft
-fourth-wall convention
-multifocus theater
-multimedia theater
-orchestra
-platform stage
-proscenium
-rake
-run
-thrust stage
-wagon stage
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Theatre architecture sketches Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Theatre: warm-ups, acting exercises
Homework: monologue edits
Career Catalog: Producer
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, review rubric, career catalog rubric, blog reflection
Unit 4: The Director & the Producers
Essential Questions:
What is the process required to move a production from "page to stage"?
Who is responsible for organizing and moving the process forward and what are their functions and contributions?
Key Terms:
-artistic director
-audition
-auteur director
-blocking
-casting
-director
-dramaturge
-dress rehearsal
-front of the house
-pace
-producer
-run-through
-spine
-stage manager
-stage picture
-technical rehearsal
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Draft Monologue
Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Theatre: warm-ups, acting exercises Homework: director review
Career Catalog: Director
Homework: Draft monologue
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, review rubric, career catalog rubric, blog reflection
What is the process required to move a production from "page to stage"?
Who is responsible for organizing and moving the process forward and what are their functions and contributions?
Key Terms:
-artistic director
-audition
-auteur director
-blocking
-casting
-director
-dramaturge
-dress rehearsal
-front of the house
-pace
-producer
-run-through
-spine
-stage manager
-stage picture
-technical rehearsal
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Draft Monologue
Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Theatre: warm-ups, acting exercises Homework: director review
Career Catalog: Director
Homework: Draft monologue
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, review rubric, career catalog rubric, blog reflection
Unit 3:
Theatrical Forms & Stage Performers
Essential Questions:
Why is it important for the actor to warm up?
What are the basic elements of Konstantin Stanislavski's approach to realistic acting?
What does a theatrical form dictate to the actor in regard to their approach to the work?
Key Terms:
-bourgeois or domestic drama
-burlesque
-comedy
-comedy of manners
-comic premise
-farce
-genre
-heroic drama
-melodrama
-satire
-slapstick
-theatre of the absurd
-tragedy
-tragicomedy
-emotional recall
-ensemble playing
-magic if
-realism
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Draft a second script of a classic folk tale in a distinctly different dramatic genre.
Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Theatre: warm-ups, acting exercises, group mimed scene rehearsal & performance
Homework: actor review
Career Catalog: Actor
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, review rubric, career catalog rubric, blog reflection, mime performance rubric
Why is it important for the actor to warm up?
What are the basic elements of Konstantin Stanislavski's approach to realistic acting?
What does a theatrical form dictate to the actor in regard to their approach to the work?
Key Terms:
-bourgeois or domestic drama
-burlesque
-comedy
-comedy of manners
-comic premise
-farce
-genre
-heroic drama
-melodrama
-satire
-slapstick
-theatre of the absurd
-tragedy
-tragicomedy
-emotional recall
-ensemble playing
-magic if
-realism
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Draft a second script of a classic folk tale in a distinctly different dramatic genre.
Classroom: lecture, articles, film clips
Theatre: warm-ups, acting exercises, group mimed scene rehearsal & performance
Homework: actor review
Career Catalog: Actor
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, review rubric, career catalog rubric, blog reflection, mime performance rubric
Unit 2:
The Playwright: Creating the Script
Essential Questions:
Is the playwright more or less important to the creative process than the actors and the director of a production?
What are the essential elements of dramatic structure?
Why are they essential to effective storytelling?
Key Terms:
-action
-antagonist
-chorus
-climatic structure
-climax
-commedia dell’arte
-complication
-conflict
-crisis
-deus ex machina
-dialogue
-dominant trait
-episodic structure
-exposition
-minor characters
-obstacle
-plot
-protagonist
-representative characters
-ritual
-stock character
-subplot
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Draft a script that brings a classic folk tale to life through dialogue
Classroom: lecture, articles
Theatre: warm-ups, acting exercises, script reading
Homework: script review
Career Catalog: Playwright
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, review rubric, career catalog rubric, blog reflection
Is the playwright more or less important to the creative process than the actors and the director of a production?
What are the essential elements of dramatic structure?
Why are they essential to effective storytelling?
Key Terms:
-action
-antagonist
-chorus
-climatic structure
-climax
-commedia dell’arte
-complication
-conflict
-crisis
-deus ex machina
-dialogue
-dominant trait
-episodic structure
-exposition
-minor characters
-obstacle
-plot
-protagonist
-representative characters
-ritual
-stock character
-subplot
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Draft a script that brings a classic folk tale to life through dialogue
Classroom: lecture, articles
Theatre: warm-ups, acting exercises, script reading
Homework: script review
Career Catalog: Playwright
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, creative journal rubric, participation in learning activities, review rubric, career catalog rubric, blog reflection
Unit 1:
Theatre as an Art Form
Essential Question:
How do we define art in general and what is the role theatre plays as one of the arts?
Key Terms:
-temporal
-spatial
-audience
-performer
-theatre space
-design elements
-scenery
-costume
-lighting
-sound
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: “Notice, Wonder, Discover, Imagine” worksheet. Create a short story and sketch based on an inspiration: Vassily Kandinsky's Joyful Arising, 1923, oil on canvas.
Classroom: procedures, creative writing
Theatre: warm-ups, theatre games
Homework: My App Logo
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, participation in learning activities, blog reflection
How do we define art in general and what is the role theatre plays as one of the arts?
Key Terms:
-temporal
-spatial
-audience
-performer
-theatre space
-design elements
-scenery
-costume
-lighting
-sound
Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: “Notice, Wonder, Discover, Imagine” worksheet. Create a short story and sketch based on an inspiration: Vassily Kandinsky's Joyful Arising, 1923, oil on canvas.
Classroom: procedures, creative writing
Theatre: warm-ups, theatre games
Homework: My App Logo
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Assessment: Weekly quiz, participation in learning activities, blog reflection
