Lesson plans 2013-2014
Week 1
Theatre Arts I
TEKS: 117.
Activity: Name and gesture
class activity.
Assessment: students are
grades on participation and
how many students; names
they memorize.
Objective: TSW work in a
group to memorize the
names and movements of
everyone in the class.
Theatre Arts I
Week 2/week 3
TEKS: 117
Activity: Partner interviews
Assessment: Students are
graded on how they
participate and the
complexity of their 5 open
ended questions.
Objective: TSW engage in
an interview with a partner
in front of the class.
Theatre Arts I
Week 3/week 4
TEKS: 117
TEKS:117
Activity: “get to know you
ball”
Assessment: students are
graded on how well they
work with one another and
answer their assigned
questions.
TEKS:117
Activity: questioning
activity
Assessment: Students are
graded on participating by
focusing on the questions
asked and asking questions.
Students must work with
partners.
Activity: Zip-zap-zop
Activity: “the west wind
Assessment: Students are
blows” and “I am cool
graded on how well they
because”
participate and focus.
Assessment: Students are
graded on how well they
participate and follow
directions. Students are
required to work in large
groups.
Objective: TSW practice
Objective: TSW gain
focusing on verbal and hand knowledge on how to focus
gestures while collaborating and observe their partner.
with other student in the
Objective: TSW gain
class.
knowledge on working with
others and getting to know
and understand difference
in others.
TEKS: 117
Activity: practice vocal
health exercises.
Assessment: Students are
graded on participation and
vocal health quiz.
TEKS: 117
Activity: practice vocal
health exercises.
Assessment: Students are
graded on participation and
vocal health quiz.
Objective: TSW understand
proper vocal health
techniques.
Objective: TSW understand
proper vocal health
techniques.
TEKS: 117
TEKS: 117
Activity: script reading and
stage directions/ blocking.
Assessment: stage direction
test and blocking
performance with paper.
Objective: TSW understand
the different directions of a
stage and how blocking ties
into it. Students will
understand how to properly
read a script.
Week 5-6
TEKS: 117
ACTIVITY: Intro to warm
ups and tongue twisters.
OBJECTIVE: TSW
understand proper
pronunciation.
Activity: practice
physical warm up
Assessment: Students are
graded on participation
and warm up quiz.
Objective: TSW
understand proper warm
up techniques.
Assessment: Students will
create their own tongue
twister.
Activity: introduction to
pantomime and physically
showing emotions.
Assessment: students
present a solo and
Students pick an emotion to
display.
Objective: TSW create a
panto scene with a group
and solo.
Activity: group pantomime,
first of a folktale then
anything.
TEKS: 117
ACTIVITY: intro to
Stanislavski , collage, and
questions
OBJECTIVE:
TSW create visual
representations of their
character
TEKS: 117
ACTIVITY:
Assessment:
Present visual to the class.
Assessment:
Present finished project to
the class
Assessment: group scene
with rubric
Objective: TSW create a
panto scene with a group
Stanislavski vocab. activity
OBJECTIVE:
TSW create a representation
of Stan. Voc.
Week 7-8
TEKS: 117
ACTIVITY: read script in
parts
Obj: TSW understand how
to interpret scripts.
TEKS: 117
ACTIVITY:
Audition for show and fill
out paperwork with parent
permission,
Obj: TSW understand
proper audition technique.
Assessment:
Conduct a live audition.
TEKS: 117
ACTIVITY:
Play rehearsals
Week 15
TEKS: 117
Activity: rehearsal
Objective:
Students rehearse scenes
TEKS: 117
Activity: rehearsal
Objective:
Students rehearse scenes
TEKS: 117
Activity: rehearsal
Objective:
Students rehearse scenes
Assessment:
performance
Assessment:
performance
Assessment:
performance
TEKS 117
Activity:
Strike set
TEKS 117
Activity: bus stop/ whatcha
doin?
Assessment: Present script
cold reading to class.
Week 16
TEKS: 117
ACTIVITY: intro to
improve. Aristotle’s plot
directory. Suitcase scene.
Add in scene.
OBJECTIVE: TSW
understand how to interpret
script
OBJECTIVE: TSW
demonstrate proper strike
technique
Obj.: TSW understand all
roles of production and the
rehearsal process.
Assessment: produce play
production for live
audience.
OBJECTIVE:
TSW demonstrate inprov
acting
Full TEKS: 117.34, 117.37, 117.40
(A) demonstrate safe use of the voice and body;
(B) imagine and clearly describe characters, their relationships, and their surroundings;
(C) select movements and dialogue to appropriately portray an imaginative character
drawn from personal experience, heritage, literature, and history; and
(D) dramatize literary selections in unison, pairs, and groups and incorporate dramatic
elements in improvisation.
(E) develop simple oral and written observations about visual, aural, oral, and kinetic
aspects of informal play-making and formal theatre and describe these components.
(C) compare and contrast ideas and emotions depicted in theatre.