Monday, September 19, 2011

Objective: Areas of the Stage & The Changeable Ball
Product: How are your mime skills coming along?

Bell Work: How was your weekend? (5 sentence minimum)

Class Activities
Once the bell work was completed, the work of the week was introduced. This week it is THESPIAN. Thespian is another word for actor. It comes from the Greek name Thespis. Thespis was the first actor in history; therefore, we sometimes call actors thespians.

Instead of a vocabulary lesson for the day, the students were given a diagram to copy down. The diagram was of the 9 Areas of the Stage. Students learned the the labels for the stage areas as well as their abbreviations. They will need to know both. They were also introduced to the term House, which is where the audience sits.

Once the diagram was explained, the students were given a pop quiz on their vocabulary from the week before. Only the terms that are theatre careers were covered on the quiz.

Then, the students learned how to play The Changeable Ball. This is another game that will help the students mime skills. Once student starts with a fake ball. They can change the ball into anything they want by moving it around in their hands. So, the other students know what it is, whoever has the ball should interact with it before passing it on to the next person. Students should try to imitate the same size, weight, etc. when passing from student to student.

Student Planner: Study the Areas of the Stage.

Important!
Remember that the class will be meeting on the stage tomorrow! Not in Mr. Eastland's class!