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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

Vacation Mime

Unit(s): Introduction to Theatre/Stage Movement/Mime

Purpose:

To develop observation - expression

Objective:

Students will be able to create and sustain a mime "character" while responding to and interacting with others in the scene.

Materials:

None needed

Procedure:

After the class is split into evenly-divided groups, you assign or allow them to develop a mime which expresses a favorite vacation activity.

However...each one in the group must be one aspect of that activity.

Example: One person is selling the hot dogs, one is umpire, one is running bases, one is taking tickets, etc.

Yet...all members of the group are "performing" at the same time and the class must determine the integral thread of commonality that allows the activity to be called "Baseball Game"..."Fishing" etc.

This is loads of fun with a creative class! You wouldn't believe some of the "fish" that have been caught!