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**7th GRADE DRAMA EXPLORATION!** //Welcome actors and students. Look below for the activities for each class period.// //The most recent workshop is at the top of the page. If you need to see past workshops, scroll down.//



Workshop #8 - Acting Scenes 24 February Warm-up Read through scene without script =Workshop #7 - Acting Scenes = // 12 February //
 * Warm-up
 * Read through scene 2 times
 * Acting exercise
 * Staging

** ASSIGNMENT: **
 * 1) Study your lines
 * 2) Complete your Scene Analysis

**Workshop #6 - Acting Scenes** // 10 February //
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">Warm-up
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">Read through scene 2 times
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">Beats and marking your script
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">Check-in with scene partners on the scene analysis
 * // Complete and share //


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">30 minutes memorization time

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">** ASSIGNMENT: ** None

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">// This assignment will be during the next workshop: Bring your journal to class. //

=<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 22.4px; text-align: start;">Workshop #5 - Acting Scenes = <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">// 6 February //

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">** ASSIGNMENT: ** Complete your Acting Scene Script Analysis for your scene. This document is in the Drama 7 SHARED folder on your Google Drive. Please make a copy, complete and then put in your Drama folder.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">// This assignment will be during the next workshop: Bring your journal to class. //

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-align: start;">** Workshop #4 - ENSEMBLE **
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">// 4 February //
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">Cat Want's Your Corner
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">The Toothbrushing Exercise
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">Work on Movement Dialogue Piece
 * // Sharing - Show us what you got! //

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">** ASSIGNMENT :** No Homework - ** Those of you not done with your Ensemble Video sheet, FINISH! **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17.05px; text-align: start;">** Workshop #3 - ENSEMBLE **
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">// 2 February //
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">Warm-ups
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">Go over vocab
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">Moving through space; leading with body parts, moving in levels, moving in groups
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">Image drama exercise
 * //Image, story, key phrases, master list, memorize in unison//

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;"> ** ASSIGNMENT: ** Ensemble Homework #2

** Workshop #2 - ENSEMBLE ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">// 29 January //
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">Warm-ups
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">Go over assignment from last workshop
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">Ensemble work
 * //Pass the clap, hard and soft focus, look/cross/switch, fill the space, make the box interesting//


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">You have an assignment to complete for next workshop

=<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 22.4px; text-align: start;">** ASSIGNMENT: ** Go here: [|Ensemble] =
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">Turn to the next blank FULL PAGE in your Journal and title it ENSEMBLE WORK and date it.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">Underneath write the BIG UNDERSTANDINGS (BU)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">Underneath that, write the ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS (EQ)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">Underneath that, write the vocabulary words

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">// This assignment will be during the next workshop: Bring your journal to class. //

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17.05px; text-align: start;">** Workshop #1 - Orientation **
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">// 27 January //
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">Welcome and introduction
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">Workshop structure and format
 * In-class assignment. Click here


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">Warm-ups (neutral position)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">Ensemble work
 * // Stretches, circles, out and in, groupings, spatial awareness //

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">** ASSIGNMENT: **
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">Complete the "Drama Skills Inventory" that was handed out in class.
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">Tape (or glue stick) the "Drama Skills Inventory" to the back page of your Journal Title page so that it opens up and you can see it.
 * 3) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">On the next page title: "__What Am I Good At?"__ and **date it**
 * 4) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">You are to make a list of 17 things you are good at. You determine what that means.
 * 5) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">Pick one - what you consider to be your best skill or feature and write me one 1/2 page about why you feel that is your best skill.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7333px; text-align: start;">// This assignment will be during the next workshop: Bring your journal to class. //

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