Drama: 10/3,4/12

Guiding Q

• What is melodrama and how did it fit into the culture of the Civil War?
• How is the stage organized

Bell Ringer

• Stage instructions activity

Activities

• Instruction
• Stage segments
• The director's perspective
• Cheating to the audience
• Using your upstage hand or foot
• Don't upstage fellow actors
• Blocking to arrange audience perception
• Discussion of dramatic reading assignment
• Must find the target read and be able to show the teacher on or before Friday, 10/5
• The read must be for a minimum of 1 1/2 minutes including all pauses and movements
• May be memorized but not required
• Individual only. May have a non speaking person for stage dressing or paraphrase a response if reading a passage that has dialogue
• May choose from any school appropriate source including book, short story, poem, lyrics and the like if it meets the other requirements
• Students may give an introduction to set the stage for their passage and/or give a post passage comment. Neither of these two items will be included in the reading time.
• Discussion
• What is conflict?
• What are the types of conflict?
• What are examples of the different types of conflict?
• How does conflict drive the action and characterization of a drama?
• Spend as much time as possible in audition groups working on the "Ransom" script.
• Define acceptable variations for the transition from story to script