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Lip Sync Battle Rubric

This presentation walks students through the steps to construct a Hollywood flat. The activity at the end of the lesson is to build a model flat using card stock. *Disclaimer: the embedded video has (very) mild language but may not be suitable for students younger than high school.

This is how I organize my lesson planning.

Students use theatre safety manuals to create their own safety videos. I use the manual from my district, but there are some available online if you do not already have one available to you.

This is a blank rehearsal report that I use (I did not design) for my in school productions.

Hey all, this is an example of the weekly ensemble rubric (replacement for "participation" grade) I use in my class.

Here is a rehearsal checklist that shows how I incorporate teacher check in signatures and work with the assessment rubric.

This is something that I use with my Acting I class, and can be easily used or adapted for any group. Once students learn the sequence, it can be the protocol to starting class everyday. The best thing about it is it becomes student led.

This is a checklist for planning a partner scene (planned and rehearsed, but built using improvisation). Students were already familiar with relationship, setting, objective / tactics.

This builds off the previous checklist I posted. Now that they've planned their scene, they can now practice running through it with a rehearsal checklist.

In this scene assignment, 2 actors are working with 1 director in groups of 3. Actors are working on adding level changes to each page in their script. Before this rehearsal, they played the warm up game where no one can be at the same level at the same time (if someone stands, the person already standing has to come up with a reason to sit / lay down, etc.)

This is a sample of one of my rehearsal schedules for a full length play

Here is a sample of a rehearsal schedule for my production team on a full length play.

A worksheet to help students organize their thoughts for giving feedback on performances

This is a sample of a Standards Based Grading style scale. This is not a true Marzano scale based on the most current information. This is what I am using based on the levels that my school had adopted. True Marzano Scales would have a 0, .5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4. The .5s would be if they are partially in the higher and partially in the lower.

Here is the series of 6 lessons I created for my scenic design unit. My students have no prior experience with scenic design. You can use whatever play is appropriate for your group, but I tend to use very short ones since I want to be able to focus more of the time on the design process rather than reading a longer play.

Lesson 2 of 6

Lesson 3 of 6

Lesson 4 of 6

Lesson 5 of 6