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Distance Education Guidelines: Word Document copy; .PDF Print Copy

High School Drama Courses: Recommended Unit Areas; Introduction to the Theatre; Stage Movement; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print Copy; Class Activities; Walk the World Movement; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Small Group Choreography; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Movement for Film; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Now You See It, . . .; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Machine Mine; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Musical Mine; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Vacation Mime; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Stage Dubbing; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; The Question Please!; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Standing, Sitting, . . .; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Stage Pictures; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Pantomime and Mime; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Mime History; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Mime Moves; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Mime Nuances; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Mime Makeup; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Social Quirks; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; "What Cha Doin"; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Improvising . . .; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Acting; Voice and Diction; Theatre History; Play Production

High School Oral Comm Courses

ASCA Oral Comm Position Statement: Addendum

Arkansas Guidelines

Department of Education Curriculums: Theatre; Communication - One Semester; Communication - Full Year

Drama Units and Activities

Machine Mime

Unit(s): Stage Movement/Mime

Purpose:

To strengthen observation/creativity

Objective:

The student will be able to develop acute observation and to observe "moving parts."

Materials:

None needed.

Procedure:

Split the class into even-numbered groups. After they have been divided, assign each group a "machine" to "become."

For instance, with three students, two could hold their arms together, forming a circle and one student be in the middle of the circled arms. With a revolving movement, the middle student could reflect the beaters or the "chopper" in a blender, etc.

Evaluation is on the basis of how authentic the "movements" are and how much the students observes of the machine's workings.

Examples: Tractor, lawn mower, hand mixer, stand mixer, vacuum cleaner, merry-go-round, tilt-a-whirl, typewriter, bulldozer, crane, etc.