|
Curriculum Resources for the Alaskan Environment
|
Subject Areas:
communication arts
Timeline:
open
Grade Levels:
6-12
Purpose: to involve
students in language experience; to expose the
village to theatre
|
|
J. Bacon, T.
Cochran, and K. Frederick
Producing a
Play
|
|
 Activities
- Perform first for the student body.
- If the production is well-received, perform for
parents.
Resources
- Alaska State Library for books of plays
- Pushing Back the Desks, Four Winds Press,
50 W. 44th St., New York, NY 10036
- National Center for Educational Media (NICEM)
- Media and Methods Magazine
- Spolin, Viola. Improvisation of the Theatre
|
Variations
- Have students write their own play on a subject
of interest to themselves.
- Do dramatic version of local traditional stories.
- Try integrating themes from a favorite TV show
(e.g., the interplanetary wars between Cylons and Vipers) into the
Christmas play:
get a videotape of the TV show so that you
and the class can get an idea of the sorts of props you might
make
in writing the play, select anecdotal material
which relates to community events
build spacecraft in art class; learn lines
in language arts classes; build sets during shop; during music
class, practice a Christmas carol to sing at the end of the play.
- Try a musical; tap local musical talent.
- Do as a film or videotape.
|
| 
