Drama Basics

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Drama Basics

• You need to TAKE NOTES!!!

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Drama vs. Theatre

• Drama
• Process
• Ex Elements of a short story
• Theatre
• Performance
• Ex Watch the short story

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1 Drama Skill

• Concentration
• What is concentration?
• Concentration Defined
• The ability to completely focus on the task you
  are doing

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1 ENEMY to Concentration

• Any Guesses??
• A Showoff!
• What is a showoff?
• Someone who wants to show off to their peers
  through inappropriate actions, words, movements,
  noises etc.
• Ruins others concentration ON PURPOSE!
• Wants people to LOOK/WATCH them (looks around to
  see if people are watching them).
• Causes the teacher to ignore the other students
  in the class, because they are also wanting the
  teacher to be looking/watching them too.
• Can you think of someone who is a showoff, are
  YOU a showoff? People dont like showoffs, they
  are annoying.

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2 Drama Skill

• Imagination
• What is imagination?
• Imagination Defined
• Visualize things in your head
• Pretending

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3 Drama Skill

• Imitation
• What is imitation?
• Imitation Defined
• Act exactly like something
• Pretend to be something

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4 Drama Skill

• Transformation
• What is Transformation?
• Transformation Defined
• To become something new/different
• Ex. Caterpillar to a butterfly

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5 Drama Skill

• Collaboration
• What is collaboration?
• Collaboration Defined
• To work together with others to create a
  product/assignment

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The THREE Drama Tools

• Any guesses?
• Mind
• concentration, imagination, collaboration
• Body
• transformation, imitation
• Voice
• transformation, imitation

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Review

• CITI C
• Concentration
• Imagination
• Transformation
• Imitation
• Collaboration
• 3 Tools
• Mind
• Body
• Voice

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Activities

• Signaling Device
• REMEMBER do NOT be a SHOWOFF!
• Ruler Activity
• Ruler with Action Activity
• Ruler and Chair Activity
• Freeze Activity
• Picking apples from a tree and putting them into
  a basket
• Making a snowman
• Stepping around spring puddles in the rain while
  holding an umbrella