Theatre

Season One: Nonverbal Communication

All lessons support Kentucky and National Core Arts Standards in Theatre, with an emphasis on the anchor standards Creating and Performing.

Season One focuses on nonverbal communication.

Creating: The following lessons support students exploring ideas and building skills through improvisation.

Emotion Bubble: Explore how we communicate feelings without words.

Exaggeration Circle: Explore how we communicate feelings without words.

Statues: Explore how we create characters with body language.

Moving Center: Explore how we create characters with body language.

Perform: The following lessons model ways students can share what they’ve learned through nonverbal communication.

Tableau: Show how characters change throughout a story using stage pictures.

Comic Strip Tableau: Share a story in a sequence of stage pictures.

Action/Reaction Scenes: Show how characters react to different situations.

Silent Movie Trailer: Share a story in the style of a movie trailer.