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Character Development: Shakespeare

It's easy to ignore character development in a Shakespeare monologue. There's so many other things to think about! But it's doubly important to pay attention to your character – the character is what makes your monologue come to life. Learn how to make Shakespeare character come to life.

# Shakespeare # character development # Shakespeare

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01 - Classroom Procedures

Handouts to help you establish procedures, including passes, participation grades, rules and boundaries.

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# Classroom Management Toolkit # classroom management

What Is the Right Way to Direct?

by Lindsay Price

This lesson plan takes students through a variety of directing styles, asks them to assess each method, and then asks them to reflect on what’s most important when choosing a directing method. This is a great lesson to use for a directing class, or an advanced class that will be putting together their own scenes.

# Directing # directing

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Status

by Todd Espeland

This lesson introduces the first tool: status. Students will physically perform high and low status through status walks.

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# Acting # commedia

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Reflection

by Josh Hatt

Students discuss the scenes from the previous class and reflect as a group on the process. They then address how lighting, sound, costume and staging interact together to create a technically effective scene.

# Stage Management & Technical Theatre # technical theatre # stage management

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The Acting Resume

by Todd Espeland

An actor needs two documents when they audition for a role: a resume and a headshot. What should go on an acting resume and what should stay off of it? What is an auditioner looking for? Students will discuss the purpose of an acting resume, review a model, and reflect on the process. Students will use this template when they create a resume for their mock audition.

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# Acting # audition # acting

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Week 2: Writing the Play

by Karen Loftus

Students are given time to write their own plays, and gain feedback from their peers.

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The Body is Your Instrument

by Annie Dragoo

Students will demonstrate their understanding of the body’s importance to an actor.

# Musical Theatre # musical theatre

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Scenes for Classroom Study: Body Body (Scene 2)

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Gerald and Madeline (both 16) Genre: Comedy

# Scenes For Classroom Study # scene work # character development # scenes for classroom study

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Exit Slip Prompts

An exit slip is a question, a prompt, a rating, or a response to the day’s lesson. Here are 100 prompts for you to use in the classroom.

# Assessment # assessment # reflection

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Create Your Own Drama Curriculum

When there isn’t a textbook to follow or a specific set of units, how do you create a curriculum? Tips and tricks from experts in the field.

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04 - Assessment

Tools for assessment in the drama classroom, including performance and written assessments.

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# Classroom Management Toolkit # classroom management

03 - Narrators

This resource introduces the concept and role of the narrator in Story Theatre, and outlines the different options: omnipotent, character, external/internal narration.

# Story Theatre Toolkit

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02 - Curriculum

Links to DTA curriculum for a beginning drama teacher.

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Culminating Activity

by Lindsay Price

Students design, create, and implement a solution for the famous “exit, pursued by a bear” stage direction from Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.

# Stage Management & Technical Theatre # technical theatre

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03 - Classroom Environment

Ideas and tools to manage attention, volume, and group work in the classroom.

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# Classroom Management Toolkit # classroom management

02 - Tool of the Script

This tool covers finding a script and directing proposal, the first, second, third, and fourth read.

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# Teaching Students to Direct Toolkit

Audition Etiquette

by Lindsay Price

Students will continue their journey toward the Mock Audition by exploring audition etiquette. How can an actor’s attitude and behaviour affect an audition?

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Using Emotional Recall

by Annie Dragoo

During this lesson, students will explore how the five senses can be used by actors as a technique to create a character.

# Acting # acting

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Script Writing for Forum Theatre Scene

by Lindsay Johnson

Students will take the scene outline created last class and use it to create a more detailed script that includes scene-setting notes, movement notes, and dialogue for the characters. Students will evaluate a peer’s script for errors in grammar or script writing conventions. They will then turn in their scripts for an assessment grade at the end of class.

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Slide Deck

# The Basics # middle school friendly

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