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High School Drama Courses: Recommended Unit Areas; Introduction to the Theatre; Stage Movement; Acting; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print Copy; Class Activities; Masterpiece Theatre; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; "This is not a Stick"; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Time for Tag-line; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; "Throw the Bum Out!"; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Secret Observation; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Mirror, Mirror on the Wall; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Let's Take a Vacation; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Three-way Writing; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Get the Picture?; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Swat Tag; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; You and Me Are Family; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; How Old Am I?; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; What's the Object?; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Once Upon a Time....; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; From a Child's Point of View; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Partner Piece; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Teenage Drama; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Family Heritage; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Who Am I?; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Cut-Off Lines...; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Ode to an Oreo; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Tag Lines; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Inside Out; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Quote Pull; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; "Yes, and . . ."; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Improve Your Improv; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; There's Nothing Like a Song; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Interview; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; The Hitchhiker; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Freeze; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Social Quirks; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; "What Cha Doin"; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; The Object of the Game; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Deliver a Monologue; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; The Question Please!; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Standing, Sitting, . . .; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Improvisational Situations; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; 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

Let's Take a Vacation

Unit(s): Acting

Purpose:

The purpose of this exercise is to take the entire class on a mental vacation. This exercise can be used to experience environment or just to help a classroom full of students to relax. Fundamentally, this is another concentration exercise.

Objective:

Students can experience what it is like to be in places they might never have a chance to go.

Students will understand the concept of blocking out the present environment and mentally creating another.

Materials:

Either put chairs for each student in a large circle for each student, or have them lie on the floor, relaxed, with closed eyes.

The instructor will describe the vacation destination, including the class in various types of activities that might be done on a vacation such as this.

Procedure:

The instructor will simply stand or sit in the middle of the class and describe going to a particular destination.

As the instructor describes the environment, he/she should ask the students to mentally picture themselves at the place described.

The instructor should verbally walk the class through an activity that everyone can enjoy, such as going to Wimbledon for a tennis match, or to a haunted house to have our fortunes told. The instructor should ask questions of the students as they experience the activity, such as, "Can you hear the pounding of the tennis players' strokes? Can you hear footsteps on the clay court? How quiet is the spectator gallery? Are you sitting in the sun? Is it hot or cool? Are the players sweating?"

Note:

Be certain to take the class gently into and out of the vacation. Bring them back to class safely. If you don't, you will create frustration for them and they will not understand why.