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Music
Costume pieces if appropriate.

None

Space cleared for workshops.
Space provided for performance on last day for school or selected audience.

I CAN paraphrase the scenes from a novel that we have dramatized.

I CAN collaborate with my peers in creating a dramatization of a story or scenes from a story.

I CAN contribute to ideas presented about ways to respond to the narrative that is being read by the narrator.

Planning: Teaching artist and teacher will meet to select story or key scenes in a story that the class has just read. If students are reading a novella, teacher and teaching artist will choose scenes that illustrate rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Teaching artist and teacher will discuss the ways in which narrative, verbal and non-verbal improvisation for the stage, and music will be incorporated into bringing this work of literature to life.

DAY ONE: Students will be involved in exercises in improvisation and will be guided through the process of responding to short passages from the story. In small groups, students will improvise non-verbally and verbally using the narrative from text as a catalyst for dramatization. Students will also review the elements found in literature as well as in stories dramatized such as Character, Setting, Plot, Conflict, and Theme.


DAY TWO: Students will learn some key theatre terminology that will help them learn how to stay in character, listen to fellow actors onstage, and be seen and heard by an audience. Students will also learn about character motivation in literature and in theatre, and the class will discuss what the characters want in each of the scenes that have been selected and what obstacles keep certain characters from getting what they want. Actors will be cast in different roles.


DAY THREE: Students will review the sequence of the story or of the key events that are being dramatized and will discuss the rising action, the climax of the story, and the falling action and resolution that will be found in the scenes or story. Students will rehearse their scenes (or complete story) with teaching artist as narrator.

DAY FOUR: Rehearsal with costume pieces and music.

DAY FIVE: Students will share their presentation with an audience.