DRAMA CLUB ONE ACT!!

Please join us on Tuesday at 7:00 in the RMS cafeteria for the first performance of the year it is going to be amazing!!!

Drama 1 Notebook Update

Drama 1 Notebook Update

Chapter 4 Vocabulary

1. Creative Drama is an improvisational form of theatre in which participants are guided by a leader to imagine, enact, and reflect on human experiences.

2. Formal Drama - focuses on a performance in front of an audience as the important final product. 

3. Improvisational - non scripted and spontaneous.

4. Replaying - is acting out the story or activity again using the changes discussed. It allows participants to expand on their ideas. Replaying can occur immediately or can occur at another time.



5. side-coaching - a method by which the leader talks you though an activity by making suggestions or giving you ideas.

6. Leader(or teacher) playing in role - a leader (or teacher) who actively participates in the creative drama process by playing one of the characters.

Chapter 4 - Lesson 2
Narrative Pantomime

7. Narrative Pantomime - a creative drama activity in which a leader reads a piece of literature while the entire class plays the action in unison without words.

8. In Unison - at the same time

9. Interpret - is to act out meaning of a selection and understand it in a unique way.

10. Literary Merit - the quality of a story that gives readers and actors a deeper understanding about the human condition and human spirit just through experiencing the story. Usually, the story’s protagonist must face a triumph over internal and external obstacles.

11. Protagonist - the major character in the story. The protagonist must face triumph over internal and external obstacles.

12. Conflict - the problem or obstacle.

13. internal characteristics - inner, personal qualities, invisible to the human eye.

14. external characteristics - qualities relating to a character’s outwardly visible traits.


Week 14

Do Now - What is your favorite Childhood Story

Tongue Twister - There's no need to light a night light on a light night like tonight. On a light night like tonight for a nights lights lights a slight light, and tonights a night that light.

11/07/11

Drama 1:

Do Now - New Tongue Twisters

1. Selfish Shellfish
2. Rush the washing, Rusell!
3. Red Leather, Yellow Leather
4. pre-shrunk silk skirts
5. good blood, bad blood

Create a team name!

ADV Drama - Your 2nd assignment for districts is due. Also we will go to the mac lab today and research your shows.

Strategies - SSR - then brain teaser

ATTENTION DRAMA CLUB MEMBERS!!!

There is a Booster Mtg. for your parents tonight at Sir Pizza in the walk at 7:00. Tell your parents to come and help out the drama club!

11/03/11

Drama 1: NOTEBOOK CHECK FOR A GRADE TOMORROW

Do Now- "What is your favorite murder mystery show?"

Slides from Act 1 of Curtains. - MUST be in your notebook and MUST study for your exam tomorrow.

•Time 1959

•At the beginning of the play it is opening night of “Robbin’ Hood!, “A new musical of the Old West.

•Jessica Cranshaw enters. She is the star of the musical and she can’t act, sing, or dance.

•After opening night she collapses on stage and no one knows why. 

 •We see four people reading the reviews from the show the night before.

•Composer – Aaron Fox,

•Lyricist – Georgia Hendricks

• ( they were married, but they got a divorce )

•Banker – Oscar Shapiro

•Producer – Carmen Bernstien

•When the director – Christopher Belling – enters he has a new plan to make Georgia Hendricks the new star of the show. Georgia has recently started a romance with the leading man of the show Bobby Pepper.

 •The director reveals his masterful plan…as long as Jessica Cranshaw is indisposed, her part should be filled by Georgia.

 •Everyone agrees, except for her ex-husband Aaron.

•BUT the news arrives that Jessica Cranshaw has died at the hospital and the cast has an impromptu funeral service for her.

•This is interrupted by the arrival of Homicide Lieutenant Frank Cioffi, who thinks the show is terrific.

•The cast reveals that they don’t want to go on and Carmen and Frank must remind them that they are in fact, “SHOW PEOPLE”

 •Lieutenant Frank reveals that no one can leave for the night because it appears that Jessica Cranshaw has been Murdered. SO the cast has been trapped inside the theater until they can find out who done it….

•She has swallowed a poison pellet during the show so someone in the show had to murder her.

 •Sidney Burnstien, the show’s senior producer, arrives from New York where he claims to have been at the time of the murder.

•Niki Harris, who was Jessicas understudy, starts a budding romance with Lieutenant Frank.

•They both realize that they are in love with there jobs more then they should be.

•The next day Georgia is struggling to regain her show biz sea legs, And they invite Daryl Grady to pay them a visit – he was a theater critic who did not like Robbin’ Hood the first time he saw it.

•The director Chris Belling tries to rehearse a very difficult number called, “In The Same Boat.” But realizes that the problem might be the show itself.

•So Aaron Fox, the composer, goes back alone without Georgia to write a new song for the show.

 •During the number, “I miss the music” Lieutenant Cioffi makes an unexpected confession.

•Georiga does a number called, “Thataway!” Which is amazing and no one doubts that she can carry the show.

•As the first act ends a key member of the company is forced to face The Big Blackout.

ADV Drama - District research. You will get a packet tomorrow with everything that you need to do.

Strategies - Guest Teacher

11/02/11

Drama 1: Continue to copy notes from Curtains/ Watch

ADV Drama: Introduce district piece unit

Stratigies : Guest teacher


Drama 1 notebook:

Copy down D.R.A.M.A policy

D=demand your greatest potential
R=respect yourself and others
A=aim to reach your goals
M=make mistakes
A=aim to reach your goals

11/01/11

Drama 1 : We started copying the notes for Curtains the Musical. We are watching JP Taravella's Production this week.

ADV DRAMA: Registration for District Pieces

Strategies: 20 min. silent reading, Sudoku Puzzle