Lesson Plans, Pacing Guide, Essential Standards & Literacy

 Pacing Guide: August (First Week)  Objective: Essential Standard B.C.1.1-B.C.2  The Students will review the syllabus and expectations for this course. The students will also complete many improv activities during the first week of the class.  Activity Description Literacy  Focus and Review Review course syllabus  Teacher Input Talk about expectations Create Improv Story  Independent Practice Students begin performing improv scenes.

 Pacing Guide: September (First Week)  Objective: B.A.1 Analysis: The students will begin to understand and discuss the components of acting.  Activity DescriptionLiteracy  Focus and Review Improvisation  Teacher Input  Guided Practice Students will learn Students will read and self-awareness, ensemble take notes about the ethic, movement, voice, different areas. and telling a story.  Independent Practice Complete worksheets Students will write three things they have learned. Students will include major and minor details.

 Pacing Guide: September (Week Two)  Objective: B.A.1 Analysis- The students will understand and discuss the components of directing and producing.  Activity Description Literacy  Focus and Review Assessment Vocabulary Quiz  Guided PracticeStudents will learn the Students will roles of director, work in groups and discuss producer, production the importance of the team and the performance director. space.  Independent Practice Worksheet activity, write short essay on historical profile on Sophocles.

 Pacing Guide: September (Week Three)  Objective: Aesthetics B.A.E.1- The students will understand and discuss the components of technical theatre.  Activity Description Literacy  Focus and Review Assessment- Test  Guided PracticeStudents will learn about stage Watch video clip. crew, set construction, props, Students will write lighting, sound crew, short essay explaining costume and makeup crew what they have learned.  Independent Practice Exploration Projects: students will work together in groups and begin to construct a model of a stage.

 Pacing Guide: September (Week Four & First week in October)  Objective: Communication B.A.E.1-2: The Students will be introduced to performing.  Activity DescriptionLiteracy  Focus and ReviewVocabulary Assessment, Chapter test 1-3  Teacher InputBegin to talk about the characterization process, motivation, behavior, and creating specific characters.  Guided PracticeStudents will begin to work Students will answer on a Shakespeare play. Questions pertaining to the reading.

 Pacing Guide (October week two and three, more time if needed)  Objective: Communication B.A.E.1-2: The students will begin selecting a scene group and research on a play. The students must research the author and read the entire play as a group before rehearsal begins.  Activity Description Literacy  Focus and Review Hand-out “Approaching the Students will Play” learn different theatre terms about the play Objective, Tactics, given circumstances, super objective  Teacher Input Instructor will discuss the importance of approaching the play, character development.  Independent PracticeStudents will read about Stanislavsky’s approach to a play. They will learn that Stanislavsky’s calls the main action “the play’s spine”. They will also learn Uta Hagen’s Analysis of the given circumstances of a play.

 Pacing Guide: November (Week one and two, more time if needed)  Objective: Communication P.C.1.3: Students will continue to work on scenes, monologues for their informative and formative performances.  Activity Description Literacy  Focus and Review“Approaching the Play”  Independent Practice Students will work in Students will scene groups and continue discuss their the rehearsal process. Approach and motivation in dealing with their character.

 Pacing Guide: December-January  Objective: Culture A.C.U.2.2: The students will continue the rehearsal process and prepare for their formal performance.  Activity Description Literacy  Focus and ReviewAssessment on vocabulary and review on theatre curriculum for final written exam.  Independent Practice Students will prepare for Student’s notebook tech dress rehearsal for and portfolio will be due their final performance the day of their performance. of the semester.

 Theatre Art in Action Text book  Drama Projects Text book  Uta Hagen’s acting class DVD  Theatre arts I power point lessons  Theatre arts II power point lessons  Theatre arts III & IV power point lessons