Unit 3 - Theater

Unit 3 - Theater

September 18, 2023
Mrs. Johnson

​What if I miss class?

1) Let your district know why you were not in class today. They are keeping an eye on attendance and participation.
2) You can always watch the recording. If it is an assignment we covered in class, you will need to complete on your own for credit.
3) My bookings link is in my emails - book an appointment with me.
4) Email me and I am always here to help you!!!!

Pacing, Grades, Assignments

On-Target Grade holds students accountable for the work they have completed so far and for any activity not completed by their Target Date. It provides a great way to understand how a student is performing based on where they are supposed to be in their course today, based on their set schedule. It is essentially calculating zeros for any incomplete activities past their Target Date.

You should be done with Units 1 and 2. If not, make this a priority.
Today - Activity 1 is due
You need to read the lessons prior to taking the quiz. I have question examples for you later today.
Wednesday - September 20 - quiz
September 21 - Discussion 1 (we can do on Friday)

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​This week:

What I see

​No colored circle - did not do - not good






Colored circle - read and did - good

​Unit 3 - Theater Genres

​Comedy and Tragedy

​Musicals

​Experimental Theater

The film became a cult classic, and like much of the filmmaker’s work, it boasted culture-challenging content and casting.
They brought in infectious 1960s-style music and emphasized the earnestness of youth amid the cultural and political context of the era. The result? An upbeat and vibrant musical that didn’t water down the film’s commitment to embracing the outsider.
Playwrights create various types of plays—comedies like Hairspray to brighten our moods, tragedies to offer catharsis, dramas to struggle with our place in the universe, and musicals to help us escape from our day-to-day troubles.

Multiple Select

The genres of theater include:

• Roasts

• Experimental Theater

• Comedy and Tragedy

• Drama

History of theater

Genre - category of theater (or other media, such as film or literature) that shares similar, defining characteristics and/or storytelling techniques.
Masks - one mask for each genre. Important in Greek theater.
Classical tragety - main character a hero, noble by birth
Example - Oedipus Rex

Sophocles is one of the three most prominent Greek dramatists—the other two are Aeschylus and Euripides—whose material is still being performed today, some 25 centuries after it was written.

Post-Greek Tragedies
Shakespeare wrote many of the world’s most famous tragedies, including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth. Many of Shakespeare’s histories share elements of the tragedy, but because they were based—however loosely—on the lives of actual people, they’re considered histories. He owes much of his own approach to tragedy writing to the old theater critic and theorist, Aristotle. According to Aristotle, tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious.
Let's examine the characteristics of Shakespeare's Tragedies......
More modern plays, though often tragic in many ways, tend to focus on struggles better understood and experienced by audiences.

Let's do flashcards!!

Match

Match these theater terms:

• props

• role

• scrim

• script

• voiceover

any object handled by an actor onstage

a character written by the playwright

a special backdrop which can appear both opaque and transparent, depending upon the lighting

the dialogue and stage directions of a play

a narrative heard from a sound effect rather than from the actors on stage

• any object handled by an actor onstage

• a character written by the playwright

• a special backdrop which can appear both opaque and transparent, depending upon the lighting

• the dialogue and stage directions of a play

• a narrative heard from a sound effect rather than from the actors on stage

Activity 1 - Due today

Step 1: Select a Shakespeare Comedy to Evaluate

View a stage presentation (if available, or a cinematic adaptation if not) of one of Shakespeare’s comedies, such as As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Comedy of Errors, or Much Ado About Nothing.

Step 2: Watch and Note Comedic Elements

As you watch, consider the elements playwrights often use to create comedy:

• exaggeration; incongruity; surprise; repetition; wisecracks; sarcasm

Step 3: Document your Evaluation

Create a Word table like the one below and comment on the different elements of comedy you find in the performance you chose. You won’t find all of them, but some of them will be present no matter which comedy you choose.

Give a description of where in the play you found the element (one example for each of the elements you find is fine) and how well you think it created humor. Was it funny? In what way?

​Steps:
Open a word document
Insert a table - four columns wide
7 rows - one for each of the elements - exaggeration; incongruity; surprise; repetition; wisecracks, sarcasm
Fill in with what you observe.
Name and Save to your computer Finally -attach it in the Dropbox.
Send!!

​Chart example

​And then there is a quiz....

You should be done with Units 1 and 2. If not, make this a priority.
Today - Activity 1 is due
You need to read the lessons prior to taking the quiz. I have question examples for you later today.
Wednesday - September 20 - quiz
September 21 - Discussion 1 (we can do on Friday)

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​This week:

​Exit ticket - Read, read, read!!!!!!!