Lesson Plans
Ms. McCellan (Art)
- 10-24-2011
Art Lessons Week of October 24th
Exploratory Classes
Bookbinding will be continued this week. It will be finalized by Friday.
Art I Classes
Current painting assignment will be finalized on Tuesday or Wednesday this week.
New assignment starts Wednesday or Thursday. Cubist portrait - delving into the angular broken space the Cubists used and getting looser after the previous tight painting assignment.Art II Class
New assignment will be a Fauve Landscape or Self Portrait (student choice) Students will paint a collaged and textured background. The piece will be cut out and layered to show the valued areas.
Additional work with stitching will add line, texture and definition to the composition. Color will mimic the Fauve's use of arbitrary color. - 11-14-2011
- 12-12-2011
Dr. Maneen (Theatre)
- 10-24-2011
Objective: continue work on introducing students on how to best read a script concentrating on concepts learned in class. How to best approach a cold reading. How to begin to understand and develop a character. Add in processes for a proper audition.
Materials: script for our upcoming Christmas play called Rumors.
Procedure: classes will participate in a reading of "Rumors" by Neil Simon in the form of a reader's theater script. They will discuss how to decode unknown words when reading, and read the script out loud changing roles so all get a chance to participate. Various techniques will be initiated for use in developing a successful audition.
TEKS: 117.34, 117.37, 117.40
(A) demonstrate safe use of the voice and body;
(B) imagine and clearly describe characters, their relationships, and their surroundings;
(C) select movements and dialogue to appropriately portray an imaginative character drawn from personal experience, heritage, literature, and history; and
(D) dramatize literary selections in unison, pairs, and groups and incorporate dramatic elements in improvisation.
(E) develop simple oral and written observations about visual, aural, oral, and kinetic aspects of informal play-making and formal theatre and describe these components.
(C) compare and contrast ideas and emotions depicted in theatre.
Evaluation: teacher observation, quiz on story/plot, protagonist/antagonist etc, rubric.
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