Theater and Acting
DRAMATIC ACTING
TH10 -1 Elective Credit - Full Year
1/2 Elective Credit - 1/2 Year
This is a full year course designed as an introduction to the fundamental basics of acting. Students will learn memorization, character development, stage movement, voice projection and play analysis. Students will memorize a monologue and a scene to perform in front of classmates. This is a great class for those interested in getting help for public speaking too!
HONORS ACTING
TH11 - 1 Elective Credit - Full Year
This class focuses on a play for the Massachusetts High School Drama Guild Festival Competition in addition to collaborating with Forensics for our annual CSI day. Rehearsals outside of class time will be required for this class. Students must audition for this class. Auditions will be held before students register for classes this year.
SHAKESPEARE for PERFORMANCE and LITERARY ANALYSIS
TH30 – A Level - 1 Elective Credit - Full Year
TH30H – Honors Level – 1 Elective Credit
This class will concentrate on learning to perform Shakespearean drama, and working with the Drama Production class to produce some fun self-scripted shows, The senior English students in the class will, in addition, be assigned an essay for each unit in order to engage in a deeper analysis of each play.
DRAMA PRODUCTION CLASS
Grades 9 - 12
TH70 - 1 Elective Credit – Full Year
TH70A – ½ Elective Credit – ½ Year
This class will be aimed at learning all aspects of theater: from writing a script to building a set, lighting the stage and performing the play. Students will work together to write and produce a play working alongside the Shakespeare class. The goal will be to produce two plays during the course of the year.
SCREENWRITING, PLAYWRITING, and CREATIVE WRITING
TH40 - ½ Elective Credit - ½ Year
Seniors: This is an English elective
This is a half year course designed as a writing workshop where students will learn the basic principles of writing screenplays, stage plays and short stories. Then they will use those principles to write their own works. As they work on their writings, they will share them with their classmates and critique one another. Students will then use the critiques to edit their work. The goal will be to have one or two finished works depending on their length.
ADDENDUM - REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE (See below for credits):
Rehearsal and Performance is designed as a workshop class where students learn to "put on a play" as they actually do so. The students will be either learning to act in a play or they will be learning to build sets, design lights, create sound or to manage a stage production. This is a "hands on" experience in every sense of the phrase and students will be expected to put energy and effort into making the production successful for the entire group.
Course sign up: After audition, the names of those students who make the cast of each play and those who will be involved in the backstage crew will be sent to Guidance Credit: Each play will count as 1/4 credit and lasts one marking period.