Monday, January 28, 2013

Intro to Greek Theatre

HW #49



For homework, you are to create one page of Cornell Notes OR 'four square' notes from the information gathered on the following website:
http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Theatre/

You should have notes on the following categories:

ANCIENT GREECE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS (you will see the playwrights names in a rectangle on the right of the start of the reading. There should be 4 in total.)

ANCIENT GREECE THEATRE STRUCTURES (ARCHITECTURE)

ANCIENT GREECE ACTING STYLES (INCLUDING USE OF COSTUMES AND MASKS)

ANCIENT GREECE THOUGHT/SOCIETY
Hand in notes in FOLDER the next day YOU have theatre class!

Thank you!

~ Mr. Peterson

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Sample Improv Scenarios

A Restaurant customer is complaining to his waiter about a hamburger he ordered.

Two friends are looking at the basketball team cut list that is posted on the door of the school gym.

The security guard in a jewelry store stops a customer and asks to look in his jacket pocket.

Two patients are waiting in a dentist’s waiting room.

Two painters are painting a room                            .

Two Students are in the Library working on a research paper together.

A woman is in a nail salon having her nails done by a manicurist.

A teenager who has been grounded is attempting to sneak out of the house. Just as he is about to leave his parent walks in the room.

A parachuting instructor is about to give a student the signal to make the first jump.

A homeowner answers his front door and finds a door to door vacuum cleaner salesman.

Two Students are waiting outside the principal’s office because they have been in a fight.

A singer and his piano accompanist are discussing the possibility of including some new songs in their act.

Two construction workers are building the foundation for a house when they discover a treasure chest.

A Doctor wants to inject his patient with a string pain killer, the patient is in extreme pain.

A police officer sees an adult trying to break into a locked car.

Two people on the sidewalk simultaneously reach for a 20$ bill lying on the ground.

A teenager with a radio that is blaring loud rock music sits down on a bus near an elderly person.

Two friends are lying out on the beach.

You are saying goodbye to someone you love at the airport.

A prisoner in jail is talking to a jailor.

You are a foreign exchange student staying at the home of a family that speaks no English. This is your first dinner together.

A gym teacher holding a folded piece of paper runs into one of his students in the hall.

Two friends are at a party when they notice the time.  It is way past their curfew.

A supermarket cashier notices another cahier stealing money from the register.