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Audition packet for middle school musicals. Can be edited to suit your own needs.

This is what cast members receive on the first day of rehearsal. You may want to add a line for the parent to sign, as well.

A handout that outlines what is expected for play reviews.

Rubric that accompanies Guidelines for Play Reviews handout

Here is a lesson on pantomime that I use in Acting I. It gives students choice within some structure.

Here is a play analysis assignment that encourages students to deepen their thinking within each of the four levels of questions. You can use it for all theatre students with simple edits. Level One may be enough for beginners, for example.

Here are the handouts that are referenced in my previously shared Stage Makeup Unit lessons.

Here is a theatre safety test all my Technical Theatre students must pass at 90% or better in order to fully participate in class.

This is a very simple rubric, but it shows students their target, and gives them a tangible goal.

This is a lesson for a Breath and Voice unit that includes a bit of vocal anatomy.

This is a lesson at the end of a unit on Breath and Voice. Students will practice different vocal characteristics by performing a neutral scene, then apply those skills to creating a radio commercial. A rubric for the radio commercial assignment can be found in the Assessment section of the Member Share Files.

At the end of my Actor Movement Unit students create a Silent Movie Scene as their performance assessment.

This is a lesson for a beginning theatre class on basic vocabulary.

I created these posters using Canva. Enjoy!

I created a few posters using lines/quotes from musicals. I made color engineer prints at 24"x36" for display, but they can also be printed on regular size paper. Enjoy!

this is one BIG file of classroom posters. i had it printed as an engineer print (super thrifty!!) but you could save individual ones you like (i think it you go to print one, say you are only printing it as the ONE PAGE you like and then hit "save as PDF" that should work. that is how it works on my mac.) enjoy!!!

A meme/gif based short intro to multiple acting teachers. Used as a starting point for the Acting Teachers Research Project.

This is a quick worksheet for drawing movements that your face would make to convey 10 different expressions. We watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrgNKGjSyxA for a tutorial and they draw arrows to show how the face changes for each. Finally, they take 10 selfies, one for each expression, and create a collage to turn in. Great beginning of the year Acting assignment!

These are designed as enrichment activities for non-grading. But you can easily grade these, and of course adapt to your specific group. I will be creating by the week, as needed. This is "Week 1".

These are designed as enrichment activities for non-grading. But you can easily grade these, and of course adapt to your specific group. I will be creating by the week, as needed. This is "Week 1".