Choice Board Exercise: Portraying Emotions

Here’s a selection board train that’s all about feelings. You can use this listing for college students to finish single duties (simply have college students choose one task out of the various marketed beneath), or have college students full a number of duties as a bigger cumulative task. All the alternatives are centered on having college students painting the chosen emotion in several mediums. This may help college students to suppose creatively, discover other ways of portraying feelings, and resolve issues by fast pondering.

If you want for college students to make use of these decisions as a cumulative train, they need to choose one activity from every class (List, Playwriting, Tech, and Performance) to finish and submit. Tasks from the Tech class and some from the Performance class have the choice of working with a accomplice, however most duties are for one scholar to finish. For the Performance class, college students should full one solo activity AND one pair/trio activity.

1. Start by deciding on an emotion for your entire class to check. Use our assortment of Emotion Prompts (please embrace a hyperlink to Tons of Emotion Prompts when it goes stay August 5) should you’d like choices past pleased, unhappy, or indignant.

2. Use the next classes and lists for college students to pick out their duties.

List Tasks (select one)

• List 10 songs (ideally from musical theatre) that evoke the chosen emotion.
• List 10 performs and/or musicals that function or deal with the chosen emotion. Note a selected second (act and scene) from every play the place the emotion is current.
• List 10 quotes from performs or musicals by which the character demonstrates the chosen emotion.

Playwriting Tasks (select one)

• Write a monologue that evokes the chosen emotion. (Length: ½ web page minimal)
• Write a two-person scene by which one character expresses the chosen emotion. (Length: 1 web page minimal)
• Write a two-person scene by which each characters categorical the chosen emotion, and one thing occurs on the finish of the scene to vary the temper. (Length: 1 web page minimal)
• Write a three-person scene by which one character expresses the chosen emotion, and the opposite characters attempt to change their temper. (Length: 1 ½ web page minimal)

Tech Tasks (select one — might be executed with a accomplice if college students want)

• Create a lighting design that evokes the chosen emotion.
• Create a set mannequin (for instance, in a shoebox) that helps keep the temper of the chosen emotion.
• Select a personality from a play that expresses the chosen emotion, and create a fancy dress design (full-colour sketch or stay creation) that develops that emotion additional.
• Build a prop that might trigger a personality onstage to really feel the chosen emotion.

Performing Tasks (select one solo and one pair/trio activity)

• Solo: Choose and carry out a monologue from an present play that evokes that emotion. (Please submit a replica of the monologue.)
• Solo: Write and carry out an unique monologue that evokes that emotion. (Students should submit their unique script as properly.)
• Pair/Trio: Create a collection of three tableau scenes that evokes the chosen emotion.
• Pair/Trio: Create a mimed scene by which one of many characters expresses the chosen emotion.
• Pair/Trio: Choose and carry out a scene from an present play that portrays the emotion. Each scholar will need to have strains.

3. After the scholars have carried out, they may submit all written and sensible work, in addition to a person reflection response (discovered beneath).

4. Bonus: Students could choose and full one further activity from the Tech, Playwriting, or Performance classes for as much as 5 further bonus factors.