Distance Learning in the Arts: Drama
Storytelling in Words and Movement
Sources for Drama
Feb-May 2008 only
The D’ARTS teacher leads a storytelling workshop based on the story of Uwungalema, a story about expectations. Students will create Animal Hats during Session One. Students will warm-up, discuss, participate in the initial telling in a call-and-response technique and finally rehearse and present the story themselves through small group work in Session Two.
Scheduled as two 30-minute programs scheduled one-week apart
Curricular Relationships: Visual Arts 1.1-1.5; Language Arts 3.1,3.2, 3.3,3.4,3.5; Mathematics 4.2; Science 5.8; 5.10; Technology Literacy 8.2; Career Education & Consumer, Family & Life Skills 9.2
Grades K-3
Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
Sources for Drama
Grades 9-12
Using Shakespeare’s text, this session explores the power of Shakespeare’s language to express emotional extremes, propel action, and make audiences laugh or cry. Under the direction of the D’ARTS teacher, students will participate in theater exercises and scene work. The class can be scheduled whether or not the students will be reading the play but works well within a study unit on Romeo and Juliet.
Curricular Relationships: Performing and Visual Arts 1.1-1.5; Language Arts 3.1,3.3,3.4,3.5; Social Studies 6.1,6.3; Comprehensive Health & Physical Education 2.5; Career Education & Consumer, Family & Life Skills 9.2
Greek Theatre
Sources for Drama
In this class, the D’ARTS teacher will introduce students to the social and artistic elements of Greek Theater. Using excerpts from Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, the D’ARTS teacher will instruct students in both sound and movement as they participate in recreating a Greek chorus. (No former knowledge of the play or Greek Theater is necessary.)
Curricular Relationships: Performing and Visual Arts 1.1-1.5; Language Arts 3.1,3.3,3.4,3.5; Social Studies 6.1,6.2,6.3, 6.5; Comprehensive Health & Physical Education 2.5; Career Education & Consumer, Family & Life Skills 9.2
Grades 6-9
Shakespeare's Macbeth
Sources for Drama
Using text from Macbeth, the students will participate in a series of vocal and physical exercises as a way of approaching Shakespeare’s texts and increasing their understanding of Shakespearean drama. This program is particularly beneficial to teachers and students who wish to bring Shakespeare’s text to life in the classroom setting.
Curricular Relationships: Performing and Visual Arts 1.1-1.5; Language Arts 3.1,3.3,3.4,3.5; Social Studies 6.3; Comprehensive Health & Physical Education 2.5; Career Education & Consumer, Family & Life Skills 9.2
Grades 9-12
Foley Art: The Art, Drama, and Science of Sound
Sources for Drama
Jan-Feb 2008 only
What is Foley Art? A Foley artist creates sound effects for film, television, and radio using many different kinds of technical equipment and props such as plates, glasses, car parts, chairs, and more. Students will expereince the same film clip with and without sound. Students will participate in making sounds for a scripted scene during this fascinating class which explores an artform that is heard but never seen.
Curricular Relationships: Performing and Visual Arts 1.1-1.5; Language Arts 3.1,3.3,3.4,3.5; Social Studies 6.4; Science 5.2, 5.4, 5.7; Comprehensive Health & Physical Education 2.5; Technology Literacy 8.2; Career Education & Consumer, Family & Life Skills 9.1,9.2
Grades 4-12
