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Subject Theatre Arts II: Introduction to Theatre

Grade Level 9-12

Copy and paste the standard/s here from the website


Learning Objective
The objective of the lesson is what students
will be able to do as they finish the activity.
TII.11 The student will identify major theatrical styles,
For this objective, use the Standards of including classical, Renaissance, modern, contemporary,
Learning (SOL) to say what you want to
focus on.
and non-Western, including
You can find the SOLs at
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/ look 1. identifying universal characters, situations, themes, and
on the right of the screen for the subjects ideas in theatre;
and go from there.
2. identifying the use of symbolism and cultural and
Content

historical clues in dramatic texts; and


3. describing historical production designs, techniques, and
performance practices.
Activity Describe what the learning The student will use this lesson to help them to understand the
activity will be. What will the students and
the teacher be doing? (This includes what
Commedia dellArte style of theatre as well as the characters the
they are doing with the technology). were prominent and helped to shape all theatre that followed.
Identifying the characters will be a step in understanding similar
characters that are present in most forms of theatre. Students will
also examine the specific character traits through clues provided in
the Character Traits and through this identification connect to the
cultural and historical aspects that caused the characters to develop
as well as indicating how these characters have persisted into
modern theatre, albeit under different name.
Through watching the video and learning about the specific aspects
that differentiate Commedia dellArte the students will examine the
production designs and techniques as well as the performance
practices that make the performance style unique.
Pedagogy
Technology http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=8ae56298-dcb4-
The link to the IWB lesson.
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Note: If using the
Smart Exchange,
your link should look
like this:
http://exchange.s
marttech.com/deta
ils.html?id=2ebf61
c1-797e-47ac-
b1b0-05fbcceea10f

Not this (no


"notebook", no
"express"):
http://express.smart
tech.com/?url=http://
exchangedownloads.s
marttech.com/public/
content/2e/2ebf61c1-
Technology

797e-47ac-b1b0-
05fbcceea10f/shakes
peare.notebook#

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