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

Drama 1 Notebook Check Week 5

Do NOW  - Tongue Twisters

1. Eight great grey geese grazing gaily into greece
2. Tie twine to three twigs
3. The old cold scold sold the school coal scuttle
4. Did you see Peter Piper's puppy peeping playfully?
5. She sells sea shell's by the sea shore.

DO NOW - Write your New Years Resolution

Curtains Notes ACT 2

• The act opens with an updated medical status of the most recent victim. With the song, “The Man Is Dead.” 
• The lady singing in the beginning of the show is the conductor of the show named, Kristen Rosenfield 
• The man who was hanging at the end of the act turned out to be Sidney Bernstein, Carmen Bernstein's husband and producer of the show.  
• The curtain rises at a makeshift dormitory on the Colonial’s stage. As the night progresses everyone in the cast is starting to turn on each other. They are all starting to point fingers on who had done it. 
• They are all sleeping in the theater now, because no one is allowed to leave. 
• The next morning they wake up and Lieutenant Frank is back questioning everyone about the murder. He says that Sidney has been hit in the head before he was hung. 
• He names everyone on the production side of things as his first suspects. Including the director of the show.
• He announces that he found a little black book in Sidney’s pocket. 
• Niki Harris reveals that she has found death threats. This leads Oscar Shapiro to reveal that just before Sidney died he told him that he wanted him to close the show. Sidney had even given him back the first check that he wrote him. 
• Carmen tells hims to give the check back to her that she is not closing the show.
• After that Frank proves useful in others ways helping the production team find some holes in the writing of the show. 
• We find that Aaron Fox has rewritten the problem song from the first act without his writing partner Georgia. Then they perform the new, “In The Same Boat.” They still don’t like this number. 
• Then Bambi, who is also Carmen’s daughter, reveals that she has been rehearsing a number for herself to shine. Her mom lets her have a shot at it.
• Then Carmen tells Bambi about the importance of making money off this show. 
• And she sings a song about why she decided to put on this show singing “It’s A Business.” 
• She says that who cares about the props, costumes, or actors. She wants to put 1,000,000 dollars in and get 2,000,000 dollars out.
• Carmen tells her daughter that she just doesn't think she has what it takes to make it in this business. 
• While all this is happening..one of the reviewers who is coming to review the new show shows up unannounced. 
• Which puts even more pressure on all the people involved because even though all the craziness is happening the show must go on.
• The critic informs them that there is going to be a lot of press attending the show. 
• After he leaves Bambi gets a chance to showcase her number. The ford henderson square dance.
  Bambi shines in the number.
• At the end of the dance number Bobbi Peppers is shot onstage.
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