Drama 1/ Study Skills Notebook Check Week 2

Tongue Twisters
1. Many an anemone sees and enemy anemone
2. Fresh Fried Flying fish
3. Which witch wished which wicked wish?
4. If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

DO NOW-
Come up with a good improv situation

Notes

Guidelines for Improv

1. Before you begin a scene decide who you are, what you want. You should draw on your own memory of real-life characters and imitate them.

2. Once you have the character in your mind, you need to communicate that character to your audience though your dialogue and actions.

3. Ask yourself who are you? What would you want and need? How would you go about obtaining it?

•You were not there, but you can experience the event through a form of improvisational theater called role-playing

•Role-playing – is taking on the role of a person other then yourself in an improvisation based on a given dramatic situation.

•Role playing can help you grow socially.

 •When you “try on” the role of others, you have the opportunity to discover how they feel and what they want or need.

•Thinking as someone else helps you to expand your way of looking at things and strengthens your own decision making skills.

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Study Skills

3 Brain Teasers

1. Hidden Message

2. Baseball Order

3. Farm Animal Order

 

NOTES

Why is it important to listen to your teachers in class?

 Most teachers stress ideas and facts that are important, and so likely to be on the test.

If you daydream about what you are going to eat for lunch, or going to the mall, you are most likely going to miss out on an important test question.

 Anytime your teacher mentions cause and effects - or lists things on the board, or on an overhead projector - that’s a fairly good indication that those items may be on a test.
Important Verbal Ques
1. This is important 2.  You'll want to remember this 3. If your teacher slows down or repeats something

Skills for taking notes

Having a good study enviornment

 

First make sure that you have all your study materials - note cards, rulers, pencils, folders, protractors and so on - sYour study area should be well-lit and

 

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•Often the views and opinions you act out will be different from your own.

•The way we think, feel, and act is called our point of view.

•Our personal point of view toward a person or situation is determined by who we are and also by where we are in our lives.

•Our needs and desires also influence the way we view a situation.

•A three year old who wants a dog would view the animal simply as a plaything and would not see the responsibilities that go along with having a pet.

 •When we have the opportunity to act and think like someone else we should consider, or evaluate, the situation from another point of view.

•In acting out the role, you would use appropriate dialogue and actions that would reflect there viewpoint to the audience.

•Acting out situations from different points of view helps you to become more sensitive and understanding as problems are confronted and worked out.

5. Try hard to remain the same person during the improvisation

•“Breaking Character” – is loosing concentration or getting out of character.  Using dialogue or behavior inconsistent with the part you are creating.

•This includes laughing at yourself. TRY NOT TO!!!

6. Begin your dialogue with enthusiasm and confidence.

7. It does not matter who talks first

8. All the actors should try hard to participate. The worst thing you can do to your partner is not speak

9. PAY ATTENTION!!!

10. Remember to keep the dialogue moving. SAY SOMETHING!!! It is really boring to watch someone stand up there and not talk. 

11. ALWAYS SAY YES!!!

12. Be as descriptive as possible. Don’t just say one word answers they are ugly! Use your words.

13. Always make the scene end. DON’T GIVE UP!

ROLE- PLAYING / Point of View

3rd Quater Notebook Check WEEK 1

Drama 1 -

Notes from theater history presentations.
1. The Beginning of Theater
2. Roman Theater
3. Greek Theater
4. Theater of the Middle Ages
5. Eastern Theater Traditions
6. Italian Rennisance
7. Commedia De'll Arte

You should have 6 of these because you did not need to write notes on your presentation. At least 5 notes for each presentation.

Tongue Twisters
1. Tragedy Strategies
2. A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies
3. Betty Botter bought some butter
4. This butters bitter
5. Bubble Bobble

Do Now
1. "Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching"
2. How can improv help you develop a better personality?
3. What real life situation does improv help you with?

Notes on Chapter 6

• The objective of this lesson is to develop skills in improvising action and dialogue.
• When you and your friends get together, how does the conversation begin? Do you get out a written script to follow along? NOImprovisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment.
• Your conversations begin with “What’s up?” or “Hey Girl!
• At home a conversation might begin with what happened at school today?
• Improvise – To ad-lib, or invent dialogue and actions without a script or rehearsal.
• Improvisation – A spontaneous style of theater using unrehearsed and unscripted acting scenes.
• Thus, improvisation is a form of acting
• The more you listen, the more you can participate, and the easier improvisation will become.
• Improv gives the actor the opportunity to work together in an informal way developing and creating characters – personalities different from ones own – before beginning a scene work.
• It is also an excellent way to develop concentration, exercise imagination, and become more self confidant while at the same time learning some acting fundamentals.
• Occurs spontaneously ( in the moment ) without a written sheet of instructions telling you what to say and without rehearsal.
• To work without a script
• To bring imaginary circumstances to life through action and dialogue. 
• This is key to becoming an amazing improv actor.
• YOU MUST LISTEN TO EACH OTHER.
• Scene – 1. A short situation to be acted out, as in improvisation, with a beginning, middle, and end. 2. A subdivision of an act in a play.
• What would you would say if your teacher said any of the following lines?
  –I can’t believe you are late to my class again
  –I’m afraid you didn’t pass the test
  –Why is your homework late
  –Good Job! You just thought of dialouge to use in am improvisation. Try saying your lines aloud. Now you see how easy it is to think up some dialogue?!
   The basic story line of a well-constructed improvisation includes a beginning, middle and end.
  •(think back to narrative pantomimes)
  •There needs to be a conflict – the problem or obstacles a literary character must overcome. Often a struggle between opposing forces.
•  •The second part becomes more complicated because you need to figure out what the character you are playing wants and needs.
• •This happens through the dialogue that you make up with the other person.
• •The third part is where the characters solve the problem and conclude the scene.
  •You should establish what the scene is, the obstacle that the character must overcome. 

Study Skills

1st notebook/folder check

1. The Holland Worksheet

2. The word scrambler worksheet

3. The critical thinking worksheet