Drama - 8th Grade

Fall

• 8th Grade Focus - Script Writing
• Format
  • Different techniques and formats mean different things
• Reading short plays by various authors (consistent throughout the semester)
  • including reading and performing plays written by previous classes
• Writing Exercises (consistent throughout the semester)
  • Impossible scenes, Allegories, Power, creating a "world", Stage directions only, Writing with your voice, dialogue driven, creating characters, exposition 
  • Communicating to a director through stage directions 
• How to turn ideas into a play
  • Storytelling
  • Improvisation
  • Personal experience
• Development of characters
• Introduction to theatrical lighting
  • How to set up and store a lighting kit
  • How to focus and light a stage
  • Creating mood and tone with lights 
• Creation of original one-act plays