Acting  Summer School 2008

Zaininger

E-Mail:  gzaininger@naperville203.org

 

WEBSITE: 1.) I have a class website that is accessible through the Naperville Central Website at http://www.naperville203.org/central

2.)      Link onto “Teacher Homework Pages” that is located to the left of the homepage.

3.)      Scroll down my page and you will link onto your class.  The syllabus is accessible through this page as well as any important information, including a link for your grade.  I will give you a login during the first week of summer school and begin posting your grades so that they are available to you by Monday, June 9.

 

                                    June 3- July 11: 

 

Materials needed daily for class:

  1. Spiral note book (to be kept in the classroom.)  Please bring to class by Wednesday, June 4.  You will be given 5 participation points for doing this.
  2. Pencil
  3. Blue or black ink pen
  4. highlighter for line study

 

Acting Course Goals:

Ø      to understand the historical perspective of acting in relation to today’s perspective of acting

Ø      to apply a basic knowledge of stage terms and movements

Ø      to sight-read a text

Ø      to be able to analyze a contemporary and Shakespearean monologue and to present both

Ø      to use What, Where, and Who exercises in developing improvisational scenes

Ø      to keep an acting journal

 

 

 

 

 

 

Methods of Evaluation:

Ø      Performances (both individual and group) =50% of course grade

Ø      Mid-term and Final objective over acting terms and the play and films that we do together in class.                    =20% of overall grade.  (The mid-term (quarter 1) test is on Friday, June 20 and the final (1st and 2nd quarters) is on Friday, July 11.

Ø      Participation points include journals, critiques, in class worksheets, and acting exercises and practice runs =15% of course grade

Ø      Homework includes memorization of individual monologues and scenes, analysis in preparation for scene and monologue study=15% of course grade

 

 

 

Course Weekly Break Down:

Week 1:  June 3-6

Defining Acting

Historical perspective

Where and what exercises in improvisation

Sight-reading

Friday, June 16:  Quiz on sight-reading and historical perspective of acting and stage directions

 

Week 2:  June  9-13

Analyzing Where and what to create an environment:  film study-how environment reveals character and object use advances scene

Who exercises in improvisation

Film Analysis of The Castaway, identifying objects and environment and its impact on character development

Monologue study:  contemporary monologues

Friday, June 23:  Quiz on film and analyzing text to perform

First run thru of monologue

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 3:  June 16-20

Practice monologues & final presentation of monologue

Improvisation:  creating a scene with characters

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Scene study from the play

Friday, June 20:  mid term quiz on first three weeks

 

Week 4:  June 23-June 27

Practice and final presentation of scenes from The Glass Menagerie

Scripting Text:  Short stories

Friday, June 27:  Scripting due for short stories and practice run thru

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Week 5: June 30-July 4 (No School on Friday, July 4)

Practice run thru and final presentation of group interpretation of scripted story:  Show excerpts from Zefferelli’s Romeo and Juliet to identify an actor’s use of meter and sound of language to communicate meaning

Studying classical text and the Shakespearean monologue:  monologue choices from Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Thursday, July 3:  practice Shakespearean monologues and quiz on scripting story and Shakespeare’s theater

 

Week 6:  July 7-July 11

Practice and present final Shakespearean monologues and practice contemporary monologue

Thursday, July 10:  final run through of both classical and contemporary monologues

Friday, July 11: Final exam