1. Warm Up - Day 3 Improv - 8th Grade
GRAB A WORKSHEET and Write down the following fact: Viola Spolin, the mother of modern improv, created theatre games to help immigrant children with socialization and communication.
Finish your worksheet and rehearse your scene with your group.

2. Given Circumstances: What you know about the character and the scene based on what the playwright/author gives you.

3. What are the given circumstances for the following:
Title of the Play: Happy Birthday, Heather Higby (I’m Plotting Your Doom)
Opening stage directions: (Lights up on a cupcake with a candle in it, sitting on a pedestal)

4. What are the given circumstances for the following:
3. Opening Dialogue:
MERCY
(enters; speaks directly to audience) All right, everyone listen up. My name is Mary Nightingale. I have brought you here under false pretenses. This is not actually a play. This is more like a trap. Every single person here is going to help me destroy my arch-nemesis, Heather Highby.
SPY ONE
(enters) Eight minutes!
Thank you. (she has a stopwatch, which she sets. SPY ONE exits) Heather is on her way here even as I speak, so we’ll need to move fast. Here is a quick lesson on what we’re doing and who we’re doing it to. This is Heather Higby. (Monster Heather enters.) This is not actually Heather. This is a more appealing stand-in. Note the crazed expression in the eyes. (MONSTER obliges with a crazed expression) And of course, the fangs, designed to make sure something unpleasant happens every time she opens her mouth. Say hello, Heather. This is a birthday cake. Today isn’t Heather’s birthday in the traditional sense. Your birthday isn’t only the day you’re born. Your birthday is also the day that people start to see you for who you really are.

5. Vocal and Physical Warm Up and zip zap zop

6. Rehearse and finish your worksheet (10 minutes)

7. What are the given circumstances in this scene? (6-7 bullet points)
Warm Up - Day 4
Pick up a scene from the box centerstage
and answer the following question in your journal:
What are the given circumstances in this scene? (6-7 bullet points)

8. Vocal and Physical Warm Up

9. Review your improv scene with your group 2 minutes

10. Answer the following for each group:
What did they do well? Why did you think it was good?
What could they do better? Give them a suggestion.

11. Bury the Word
*Pick a word -- you must bury this word in your scene, the audience has to guess what your word is.
*Pick a where
Answer C.R.O.W. for your scene for each character on 1 sheet of paper. Be specific and write in complete sentences. Be sure to turn it in.
C-Character, R- Relationship, O - Objective - What does your character want?, W-Where are you?

12. Share Scenes
What is their word?
How were you able to guess it?

13. Reflection What are your given circumstances in your monologue?
2. How can you use your given circumstances to develop your character further?