Bundle: Scene Study For Actors - Advanced Acting Lesson for High School Drama

Bundle: Scene Study For Actors

Do your students have their perfect scripts, but now feel overwhelmed? This bundle will help actors through each hurdle on the way to performance. From planning and documenting rehearsals, to memorization, motivation work, and even overcoming stage fright, this bundle will help make the journey to performance as smooth and rewarding as possible.

Scene Production For Actors

Have you taught your students rehearsal strategies to practice and perform scripted scenes effectively? We've consulted with professional theaters, actors, and directors to streamline this 10-Lesson scene performance unit to guide high school performers from the moment they get their scripts until their final bows before the audience.

As a class unit or a final project, scripted scene work is often the ultimate assessment for young actors. This unit includes everything your drama students need to perform polished scenes for their peers.

Includes:
Lesson #1: Identifying Your Script and your Role

Lesson #2: Character Inside & Out

Lesson #3: Objectives and Tactics

Lesson #4: Blocking

Lesson #5: Memorization

Lesson #6: Rehearsal Power-Hour

Lesson #7: Technical Elements

Lesson #8: Peer Performance Assessment

Lesson #9: Keeping it fresh

Lesson #10: The Final Run Through

Additional teacher resources include:

• A Scene Performance Assessment Rubric
• 4 Classic Scenes to Workshop
• A list of Scene Suggestions for High School Performers

Memorization Strategies

Have you noticed that students are required to memorize speeches, scenes, & monologues, but are never taught how? This lesson makes memorization simple & straightforward for work in the theater, language arts, debate, or public speaking!

In this lesson, you will find: A memory game/activity designed to promote student engagement, and a stranger-than-fiction overview of memorization feats from around the world. Students will find a six-page packet of memorization techniques, potential monologues for practice, and a grading rubric to measure their progress.

Includes:

• A fun full-class engagement activity
• Incredible facts about memory & a guide to understanding how memory works
• 6 pages of memorization techniques
• 8 monologues to workshop memorization skills
• A grading rubric to measure progress

What's My Motivation? Objectives and Tactic Lessons For Actors

Ready to push your student actors to a higher level? Teach your drama class advanced acting fundamentals like motivation, objectives, and tactics through fun performance drills and theatrical performances. These lessons include key terminology and background information, but most importantly, performance-based activities so drama students can learn on the stage, not at a desk!

Includes:

• Clear and Concise Definitions for Key Terms
• Examples of Motivation, Objectives, and Tactics, and How Actors Use Them
• Challenge #1: Using Improv to Explore Tactics
• Challenge #2: Create Scenes Based on Prompts From Plays
• Challenge #3: Scripted Scenes for Actors

Surviving Stage Fright

Every drama teacher wants their student actors to feel safe on stage - But we all know how nervous they can get, and it's tough to not know how to help. These materials teach students what stage fright is, why actors experience it, and most importantly, how high school actors can use simple methods to manage it!

Includes:

• Tips for teachers to create a safe performing environment
• Explanations of stage fright and why it happens
• A surprising list of popular performers who struggle with stage fright.
• 12 methods to manage performance paralysis
• A performance plan for students to manage their own response to stage fright

Actor's Rehearsal Planner & Practice Log

Are some of your student-actors overwhelmed at the thought of bringing a performance from a script to the stage? We created this packet to give our drama & acting students manageable steps, goals, & a way to measure progress in rehearsals!

These goal-setting forms and rehearsal logs have made it so much easier for our actors to manage their rehearsal time, and we have come to use them for monologues, scenes, & school plays as well!

Includes:

• 2 pages of practice logs and goal setting forms
• 21 clear steps to prepare for a performance
• A checklist to keep track of student progress.

Free Bonus File - Actor's Challenge: Stage Pictures

How do directors and actors create powerful dramatic stage pictures? "Actor's Challenge: Stage Pictures" is a stand-alone drama lesson that shows students how to create exceptional tableaus and blocking, and makes them the directors!

This lesson includes simple instructions for the teacher and 25 dramatic situations for students to direct. It teaches blocking and tableaus concisely with visual aides and demonstrates the impact of visual storytelling. This is a zero-preparation lesson for a teacher, and all you need to do is hand it out!

Includes:

• Detailed lesson instructions for the teacher.
• A guide with visual aides on how to create compelling stage pictures.
• 25 stage picture prompts, with characters and staging hints.
• A student worksheet to plan tableaus.
• A rubric to assess student growth.

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