DT.CR.3: Revise, refine, and complete dramatic work.

I.DT.CR.3.2 Explore the connection to a character through physical, vocal, and psychological choices to develop a performance that is believable, authentic, and relevant to a drama/theatre work. 

Student Actions

Teacher Actions

• Utilize physical, vocal, and psychological choices to develop a character that is believable, authentic, and relevant to a drama/theatre work.

• Use improvisation as a form and key technique to develop character/performance connection in a believable, authentic, and relevant drama/theatre work.

• Develop improvisation skills through games. Make, accept, and extend offers in improvisation to create drama/theatre works. 

• Facilitate short improv scenes utilizing the rules of improv encouraging physical/vocal/psychological characterization

• Guide students to develop a short drama/theatre work to perform that is believable and authentic.

• Guide student research and direct them to outline a character’s possible physical, vocal, and psychological choices throughout a drama/theatre work.

• Have students defend their observations about a character’s physical, vocal, and psychological choices. 

Key Understandingsd

Teacher Insights

• Characterization

• Physical/vocal/psychological impact

• Student’s might not understand the connections to a character’s psychological impact/choices.

Resources

Lesson Ideas

Supporting Resources

• Improvisation Unit, Allison Rex - BYU Theatre Education Full unit plan. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the rules of improv by participating in an improv performance/competition.

• Introduction to Characterization, Kristen Leinbach - BYU Theatre Education Full unit plan. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the basic elements of how characterization (including language and physicality) affects creating a storyline by performing a group scene.

• Designing a Character, Susan Pattison - STF Full unit plan that focuses on character development. 

• Developing Your Character’s Physicality from Head to Toe, Kerry Hishon - Theatrefolk Have students respond to the journal questions in the article or as part of a character profile that includes ideas about how their character’s physicality works. 

• Vocal elements - Describing voice - GCSE/BBC Article that includes different ideas for changing vocal elements. 

• A definition of body language - Describing body language - GCSE/BBC Article that defines body language and gives examples.