1. AGENDA AUGUST 15, 2013 Pre-Assessment Vocab test #1 Class Grade Pre-Assessment Check Vocab Homework #4 (from yesterday) Pass out Vocab Sheets for Vocab #5 CASA DE MUERTA SCENE

2. GRADING THE TEST Please exchange your pre-assessment test with another student NOT on your Team. Please write IN RED PEN CB:_________________ (CORRECTED BY) and print your first and last name on THE LEFT OF THE TITLE OF THE PRE-ASSESSMENT TEST This Pre-Assessment is worth 200 points Please write /200 on the VERY top left side of the paper You will only grade what the student got correctly. If they didn’t write the word or put the incorrect word down DO NOT PUT ANYTHING

3. GRADING THE TEST, CONTINUED You will only be putting in points for what they did CORRECTLY. Each word is worth 5 points Each sentence is worth 5 points The Acting GRID has a total of 20 points (2 points for each square filled in correctly) and writing down where is the house. Their sentences needs to have a value ($1-$2) at the beginning of the sentence, the vocabulary term needs to be highlighted and the sentence needs to have meaning. Is the sentence punctuated correctly? Does the vocabulary term in the sentence work in terms of Drama? On a pre-assessment spelling does not count. On the actual assessment SPELLING DOES COUNT.

4. Answer Sheet Pre-Assessment Vocab #1 1. Context 2. Catharsis 3. Actor’s position 4. Characterization 5. Collaboration 6. Costume 7. Antagonist 8. Center stage 9. Commedia dell’arte 10. Actor 11. Climax 12. Conventions of theatre 13. Conflict 14. Blocking 15. Articulation 16. Cold reading 17. Complication 18. Character

5. ACTING GRID 2POINTS USR UP STAGE RIGHT 2POINTS USC UP STAGE CENTER 2POINTS USL UP STAGE LEFT 2POINTS CSR CENTER STAGE RIGHT 2POINTS CS CENTER STAGE 2POINTS CSL CENTER STAGE LEFT 2POINTS DSR DOWN STAGE RIGHT 2POINTS DSC DOWN STAGE CENTER 2POINTS DSL DOWN STAGE LEFT House or Audience

6. Please hold on to the test paper until I have received all of the Pre-Assessment scores, then return the paper back to the student.

7. Vocab 5 1. Creative drama 2. Crisis 3. Critique 4. Cue 5. Denouement design

8. 17minute improvisation video https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teaching- drama-improv https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teaching- drama-improv Due tomorrow: Signature page from the Syllabus Binder for the script 70 page notebook Vocab #5 Due Monday: 1 page scene typed double spaced of a Scene for CASA DE MUERTA

9. CASA DE MUERTA DUE M ONDAY A UGUST 19, 2013 Create a 10-30 second Halloween Vignette for our Casa De Muerta to be preformed on Halloween and October 30. Paper needs to be saved on your computer Typed, double spaced, heading, etc. You need to create a short Halloween scenario Please describe the scene in complete detail Are you above the audience? How many actors? What props? (hand and stage) What costumes?

10. C ASA DE MUERTA CONTINUED Music? Director? Choreographer? Special effects? Lighting? Stage Crew ? What Makeup? What Set? Use adjectives so when you read the scene we can visualize it as we hear it. Please print this assignment out and have it for class on Monday.