4th Quarter Lesson Plans

Q4W1 March 24-28

Monday

Objectives: understand the roles and responsibilities of a production team, understand hierarchy of team members

Benchmarks: TH.68.H.2.6:, TH.68.H.2.8:, TH.68.H.3.1:, TH.68.O.1.3:, TH.68.O.3.3:, TH.68.S.2.1:

Questions: What are the roles and duties of the members of a production team? How does the backstage hierarchy work?

Activities: INTRO Production Crew Unit - PPT

Tuesday

Objectives: understand the roles and responsibilities of a production team, understand hierarchy of team members

Benchmarks: TH.68.H.2.6:, TH.68.H.2.8:, TH.68.H.3.1:, TH.68.O.1.3:, TH.68.O.3.3:, TH.68.S.2.1:

Questions: What is the daily routine of crew members like? What procedural similarities exist between production teams and venues?

Activities:  Videos: spotlight on backstage careers, interviews with professional stage management teams

Wednesday

Objectives: understand role of stagehand, experience a quick scene change, analyze and sequence the moving parts of a given scene

Benchmarks: TH.68.H.3.1:, TH.68.H.3.3:, TH.68.O.1.3:, TH.68.S.2.1:, MA.K12.MTR.1.1:, MA.K12.MTR.3.1:, MA.K12.MTR.6.1:, ELA.K12.EE.4.1:

Questions: How does choreography apply to stagehands? What is a logical sequence for loading in scenery? What challenges might a stagehand encounter during their work?

Activities: Stagehand lab: teams of 4 practice loading scenery as a stage crew, competing for accuracy and time

Thursday

Team building games

Friday

Benchmarks: TH.68.H.3.1:, TH.68.H.3.3:, TH.68.O.1.3:, TH.68.S.2.1:, MA.K12.MTR.1.1:, MA.K12.MTR.3.1:, MA.K12.MTR.6.1:, ELA.K12.EE.4.1:

Activities: intro Production Crew Simulation project and rubric, begin to select crew roles

Q4W2

Monday

Objectives: Develop, produce, rehearse, and perform a DRY tech production according to preset cues; collaborate with team members to craft a narrative from technical scene changes, work in concert with peers as a production team

Benchmarks: TH.68.H.3.1:, TH.68.H.3.3:, TH.68.O.1.3:, TH.68.S.2.1:, MA.K12.MTR.1.1:, MA.K12.MTR.3.1:, MA.K12.MTR.6.1:, ELA.K12.EE.4.1:

Activities:  Production Crew Simulation: vote for Directors, choose production teams, begin pre-production planning

Tuesday - Thursday

Objectives: Develop, produce, rehearse, and perform a DRY tech production according to preset cues; collaborate with team members to craft a narrative from technical scene changes, work in concert with peers as a production team

Benchmarks: TH.68.H.3.1:, TH.68.H.3.3:, TH.68.O.1.3:, TH.68.S.2.1:, MA.K12.MTR.1.1:, MA.K12.MTR.3.1:, MA.K12.MTR.6.1:, ELA.K12.EE.4.1:

Activities: Production Crew Simulation: production planning and rehearsal

Friday

Activities: Production Crew Simulation: Dry Tech Performances! (in D bldg. gallery)

Q4W3

Repeat previous week’s project, but select new teams/roles, and move production from gallery into main theater. *Some students will work in the tech booth, others will be backstage.

Q4W4 April 14 - 18

Monday

Objectives: Interpret a text and produce a Concept Statement, develop a variety of original designs for a text, express a design concept across different technical domains, communicate the reasoning behind artistic choices

Benchmarks: TH.68.C.3.1:, TH.68.H.1.5:, TH.68.H.2.5:, TH.68.O.1.2:, TH.68.O.1.3:, TH.68.S.2.1:, TH.68.C.2.1:, TH.68.C.2.3:, MA.K12.MTR.2.1:, MA.K12.MTR.1.1:, MA.K12.MTR.7.1:

Activities: Introduce Independent Design Project (PPT). Read source text “Ship of Theseus: A short play in 6 scenes”

Questions: How does genre influence audience response? How do design choices affect theme and meaning? What about the source text inspires your interpretation?

Tuesday – Friday

Work on Independent Design Project

Q4W5 April 21-25

Monday – Wednesday

Work on Independent Design Project

Thursday -Friday

Present Design Projects in front of class

Q4W6 April 28 - May 2

Monday – Wednesday

Present Design Projects in front of class

Thursday - Friday

Intro to Optical Illusions

Q4W7 May 5 – 9

Monday – Pepper’s Ghost Effect (introduction, history and development, practical lab)

Tuesday – other performative illusions, close-up magic/sleight of hand, video: Penn and Teller’s Fool Us

Wednesday – Mr. K ABSENT    Spatial Reasoning and Logic Puzzles (packet)

Thursday – STATE TESTING DAY

Friday – “Housekeeping”: advanced class applications, finish work on logic puzzles packet

Q4W8 May 12 - 16

Monday – Course Review: Terms and Concepts (cumulative)

Tuesday – STATE TESTING DAY

Wednesday – Make-up work

Thursday – STATE TESTING DAY

Friday – Kahoot Review Quiz Game (with prizes!)

Q4W9 May 19 – 23

Monday – Spotlight on Less Common Tools and Techniques (pocket holes, dovetails, etc)

Tuesday – Hammer Day

Wednesday – intro to aerodynamics in paper airplanes

Thursday – Paper Airplane Construction Day

Friday – Paper Airplane Test Day

Q4W10

Monday – No School

Tuesday – Wednesday: Games

END OF YEAR!!!