Subject: Stagecraft
1. Topic-
Students will sit in front of the set for The Time Of Your Life for 15 minutes and observe it. They may walk around it.
 
2. Content-
In this exercise, students will implement what they have learned about planning, materials, structure, color, lighting, and building.
 
3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
1. Observation of a finished set.
2. Drawing of how they think it should look.
3. Description of materials, process, color, and lighting.
 
4. Objectives-
1. Students will turn in a finished set.
2. They need to show what they have learned.
3. They need to fully describe in detail what they used and why.
 
5. Materials and Aids-
Pens, pencils, paper, colored pencils, markers, textbooks.
 
6. Procedures/Methods-

A. Introduction-

1. After our breathing we will be simply observing this finished set.
2. After 15 minutes of observation, you will all draw and explain your vision for this set, and how it differs from what is there.
3. Everyone will then share their finished product.
 

B. Development-

1. It's pretty simple. I will just show them a set I have drawn and explained in the past.
 

C. Practice-

1. None needed. They just need to observe and draw.
 

D. Independent Practice-

1. I will give a break after 3 minutes of drawing for water and stretching, and so I can answer questions and help them along.
 

E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-

1. Just being on-hand to answer questions.
 

F. Checking for understanding-

1. "How did we all do?"
2. "What 3 things that you learned this semester did you find the best in helping your design?"
3. "What did you learn?"
 

G. Closure-

1. Ask for people to present.

2. Clean up, and give cookies.
 
7. Evaluation-
1. All students had very creative and different ideas for what they thought the set should look like.
2. Once again, more attention needs to be paid to the textbook.
 
8. Teacher Reflection-
This exercise went very well. They all showed what they learned well. I may in the future, cut down the time. Some people got bored.
 

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