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Alternative World Literature: Course Syllabus
Classroom expectations:
Show up with a positive attitude! This class has some interesting content that we can have fun with if we all work together!
Have respect for yourself, others, and the building. Enough said.
I will keep you work in a folder that you can access at any time.
Assignments will be attached to Jupiter grades. If you are absent, you can download them at home and stay caught up.
Do not yell out my windows. Enough said.
What you will need:
Working pen or pencil. You are seniors! You should be coming to class with a writing implement after 12 years of school!
A positive attitude! This class will be what you make it! Ask last year's seniors!
Grading:
A good chunk of your credit will be tied to daily points. Attendance, attitude, participation, and work ethic are worth 5 points per day. To earn your 5 points, put your phones away, have a pen or pencil and the book ready when class begins!
Generally there will be an assignment attached to the day's reading that will be worth 10-20 points depending upon difficulty level.
Tests, Projects, and essays are usually worth 100 points.
Content Units:
Europe; A series of impressionistic and/or existential short stories about the pangs of despised love and other disappointments and discoveries in life. We will look at impressionism in the film “Memento” and existentialism in the film “Taxi Driver”
The Middle Ages; We will explore satire as the Seven Deadly sins are personified in different characters on their way to Canterbury Cathedral, and read the tales several of them told. We will journey to the center of Hell in Dante's “Inferno”, and see King Arthur on his last day, the “Day of Destiny”. We will Watch the films “Se7en” and which shows a serial killer who selects sinners personifying the seven deadly sins and punishes them in the style of Dante's “Inferno”.
The Bible; Witness mankind's first fall from innocence, worldwide punishment for sin! Look at the Father of the Nation of Israel as he is told to sacrifice his only son, and watch God reign terror down on some stubborn Egyptians. We will also look at the “kinder side of God” in the new testament and seek to define ourselves through the “Proverbs”.
Asia; The graphic novel Persepolis shows the poignant, darkly comic adventures of a girl growing up amidst the war-torn and fanatically religious country of Iran. An autobiographical true story.
Africa; A collection of short stories about men behaving badly, and the women that support and tolerate their actions...on a continent where this is commonplace.
Shakespeare; Hamlet, the tale of a young Dane whose father was murdered by the very man who is now marries to his mother, or Macbeth, a man told by three witches he will become king, and decides he will “make it happen” on his own...
South America; A collection of surreal short stories about the darker side of love, and humankind in general. Film: Pink Floyd's “The Wall”
Drama I Syllabus: Lopez
Attendance, Attitude and Behavioral expectations:
Come to class every day. Class participation is a big part of your grade.
Smile, laugh, joke, giggle, and enjoy yourself (in an appropriate manner). There is a lot of work to this class, but it should be fun and I want you to should look forward to it!!!
Bring appropriate materials to class. For the first month or so, you will need a notebook and pencil. After that, you will need comfortable appropriate clothes to move around on the stage.
Course Content/Mastery Objectives:
Differentiate the basic components that make up Live Theatre vs. those that make up Films and television.
Define and apply the basic components of a play.
Articulate the Greek origins of western theatre (what we accept as live theatre).
Differentiate between proscenium, black box, arena, and thrust stages.
Articulate important components of a proscenium stage.
Identify and demonstrate the nine major stage areas and five major body positions.
Develop and refine vocalization and physicalization of the body as performance skills
Perform a scene from, or an entire one act play for a live audience
Complete a production project (directing, designing, etc.) as a final exam from an independently read play.
Course content:
I: Live theatre and the body as instrument
A) Group and individual pantomimes to practice using the body to convey meaning
B) Components of the live theatrical experience
C) Necessary components of a play
D) Theatre history: The Greeks
E) Exam on Play components and the Greeks
F) Identify Unit I components in Sweeney Todd or Into the Woods
II: Technical Theatre
A) Theatre architecture
B) Stage directions and body positions
C) Performance techniques for voice and body.
III: Group performance for WHS student audience.
IV: Final production project of your choosing.
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