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Mr. J. Keefe | Classes 561 & 562 | 21st Century Theater

Email: johndkeefe@gmail.com | 7th grade English Language Arts
Links: Click here for the project Website | Click here for the Project Plan and Resources

Project Description:

How can technology connect drama to our lives?

The goal of this project is for students gain a meaningful understanding of how technology can connect drama to our lives in the 21st Century. To effectively show this connection, students will draft and record a play relevant to their own lives. Through the production of this play, students will learn to answer:
  1. What is the history and legacy of drama?
  2. What words, concepts, and works are important to writing drama?
  3. How do we script a play?
  4. What modern tools and technologies can be used to present theater?
  5. How can technology help us share our theater work?
Upon the conclusion of this unit, students will understand the purpose, workings, and relevance of theater.  They will also understand how technology can keep theater important to their lives in the 21st Century.

Products:

Over the course of a one-month unit, students will imagine, script, edit, produce, and record a class play.  This play will be student-edited on Garageband, and placed on a our class website, linked above.  The processes of creation, reflection, editing, etc will all be documented on the website.

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