2nd Block
Highlights:
Course Description: Honors Theatre Arts Accomplished and Advanced are intensive courses offering study and work often generated through and resulting from seminar or ensemble. These courses follow the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for Theatre Arts and the Arts Education Honors Course Standards in order to provide a foundation for exploratory, experiential and/or open-ended experiences. Students are involved in a wide variety of activities including historical research for productions, script writing through improvisation, directing, designing, conceptualizing, and realizing informal and formal productions. Independent work in these courses develops commitment and helps students form aesthetic judgments and refine artistic choices. Quality plays are produced. Attendance at performances is required.
Required Supplies:
Your school provided laptop, fully charged, each day
Folder/notebook
Pen, pencil, and highlighter
Clothes appropriate for rehearsal
Black performance shoes (plain, black, closed-toe, flat shoe)
We will be using the standardized school grading system:
Practice 40%--Graded activities to teach curriculum standards during the learning process.
This will then be further broken down into:
Written Work—20%
Includes the class journal, written critiques, and other written work completed during class time or at home.
Class Work—20%
Includes rehearsal, research and occasional tech work
Performance 60%--Student’s demonstration of mastery of curriculum standards
This will then be further broken down into:
Stage Performances—30%
Projects—30%
Includes, but is not limited to: research projects, presentations, and original monologues/scenes/plays.
General Pacing Guide:
Weeks 1-2—Expert Seminars
Weeks 1-5--Literary Adaptations and Children’s Theatre
Weeks 6-12—Original play production
Weeks 13-18--Final projects
*This is only a rough outline and subject to change as new needs and requests arise.
Important Dates—MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW!
A.C.T. meetings—Mondays, 3:45-4:30, in room 805
Ashley’s Drama Club--all are welcome!
Big Fish performances April 24th, 25th, & 26th
Student Directed One-Act Auditions--TBD, maybe Thursday, April 2nd
Student Directed One-Act Play Festival--Saturday, May 16th, times TBD–Required Event
To contact Mrs. Clayton:
The easiest way to get a message to me is through email at robin.clayton@nhcs.net
Please utilize the resource of Infinite Campus to keep up with your grades, assignments and attendance.