Choose 2 or 3 of the 4 activities to do each week. Submit any work, reports or videos (if possible) back to your teacher by the end of the week.
Anchor Standards for HS Theatre Arts
CREATE
1 - Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
2 - organize and develop artistic ideas and work
3 - Refine and complete artistic work
PERFORM
4- Select, analyze, and interpret work for performance
5 - Develop and refine artistic work for presentation
6 - Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work
RESPOND
7- Perceive and analyze artistic work
8 - interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
9 - Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
CONNECT
10- Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art
11- Relate artistic ideas and work with societal, cultural, and historical content to deepen understanding
CREATE - Choose a show that your school has produced in the past. It can be either one that you participated in or saw. Re-design the set for that show in a different way than it originally was. Pretend you have an unlimited budget, and draw the set from the audience’s perspective.
PERFORM - Find a sonnet by Shakespeare that you particularly like. (This website has them all.) Practice performing it. Research it so you know the word pronunciation and “translation.” Then, grab a sock, puppet, or stuffed animal and perform the sonnet as a character you make up. If you can film it, even better!
RESPOND - Imagine that you have been asked to direct a show. Find a high-school appropriate play that interests you. Stage Partners allows you to read them for free when you create an account. Write an analysis giving your concept for the play: What themes are present? What would the set, costumes, props and lighting all look like? Describe them, provide pictures, or draw them if you can.
CONNECT - Think of a job that is on the “front lines” of the coronavirus pandemic (health worker, grocery store employee, delivery driver, politician, etc.). Imagine a person who is working in that position and create a character based on them. Write a one-page letter to a loved one as that person. What fears do they have? What are their beliefs about how we are fighting this? Who are they worried for? Etc.