Ninth-grade actors learn to analyze a script — reading for the big picture, finding the conflict, identifying their character’s objective, breaking scenes into beats, and making specific choices. Analysis turns words on a page into a living performance. They order the steps, then analyze a scene.
Students will be able to…
How do actors turn a script into a believable performance?
Project this and have students put the script-analysis steps in order.
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How do actors decide HOW to say a line the script just prints?
Students learn.
Students rehearse.
Students perform.
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Aligned to the National Core Arts Standards (Theatre, HS Proficient).
Analyze a dramatic text.
Interpret meaning in a script.
Make choices from analysis.
Apply analysis to performance.
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Have students analyze a short scene and make choices. A printable analysis sheet is in the Arts library.
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