All the Worlds A Stage

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All the Worlds A Stage

• Introduction
• Task
• Process
• Resources Evaluation Conclusion

• A Web Quest into Theater History
• Created by Mrs. Danek for Dramatic Arts
• Minooka Community High School

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Introduction

• What is your favorite TV show?
• Who is your favorite actor?
• What is your favorite movie?
• If you answered these questions in a heart beat
  you, my friend, are a drama lover.
• Have you ever stopped to consider the origins of
  drama?
• In this web quest, you will work as a team to
  journey into another time and place. What packed
  the house way back when?

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Task

• In small groups, you will research a specific era
  of theater history.
• You will design a Power Point presentation
  (minimum of 10 slides) that teaches the rest of
  the class about your topic
• You will build a model of a stage that represents
  your theatrical era

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Process

• Read p.1-15 to get a general overview of theater
  history eras and milestones.
• Meet with your group to determine the era you
  want to discuss. Get teacher approval.
• Use the Internet sites provided for research on
  your topic. These are just starting points. You
  should discover other sites on your own.
• Create the Power Point. (Check out specs here)
• Create the Stage Model. (Check out specs here)

To Resoures
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Power Point Requirements

• Minimum of 10 slides
• Include text and pictures on each slide
• Do not type in sentences on PPT
• Include major milestones, political /social
  influences, playwrights and plays in your
  presentation.

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Stage Model Requirements

• Represent the performance space of the era.
• Represent audience space of the era.
• Create additional elements if appropriate
  (Outdoor theater? Groundlings?
  Actors/Costumes?)

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Resources

• Greek Commedia
• Roman Elizabethan
• Medieval Restoration
• Broadway Modern

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Greek Theater

• http//academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/Theate
  r.html
• http//www.greektheatre.gr/
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/classic
  s/theatre/intro.shtml
• http//www.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/tragedy_theater.h
  tml

Evaluation
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Roman Theater

• http//depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/dunkle/
  comedy/romnthtr.htm
• http//www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/roman.html
• http//www.cwu.edu/robinsos/ppages/resources/Thea
  tre_History/Theahis_3.html
• http//www.northern.edu/wild/th100/CHAPT10.HTM

Evaluation
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Medieval Theater

• http//www.theatredatabase.com/medieval/medieval_t
  heatre_001.html
• http//www.msuiit.edu.ph/ipag/studies/drama/topics
  /medievaltheater.html
• http//www.theatrehistory.com/medieval/mysteries00
  1.html

Evaluation
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Commedia DellArte

• http//www.commedia-dell-arte.com/
• http//www.delpiano.com/carnival/html/commedia.htm
  l
• http//italian.about.com/library/weekly/aa110800a.
  htm

Evaluation
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Elizabethan Theater

• http//www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakes
  peare-globe-theatre.htm
• http//shakespeare.palomar.edu/theatre.htm
• http//www.bardweb.net/globe.html
• http//www.clt.astate.edu/wnarey/Renaissance20Dra
  ma/renaissance_drama_excluding_shakespeare.htm

Evaluation
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Restoration Theater

• http//www.lit-arts.net/Behn/theater.htm
• http//www.theatredatabase.com/17th_century/
• http//www.st-andrews.ac.uk/www_se/murray/Restora
  tion/Theatres/Theatres.html

Evaluation
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Modern Theater

• http//www.people.virginia.edu/jrw3k/Viterbo20Cl
  asses/Eng.20104/10420Modern20Theater.htm
• http//www.northern.edu/wild/th100/CHAPT14.HTM
• http//www.actors-studio.com/history/mat.html
• http//www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/s
  tanislavsky_c.html

Evaluation
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Broadway-American Musical

• http//www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/
• http//www.theatrehistory.com/american/musical030.
  html
• http//www.musicals101.com/1700bway.htm
• http//www.britannica.com/ebi/article-205096

Evaluation
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Evaluation

• Your Power Point is worth 100 points and will be
  graded using the Project Rubric.
• Areas of Assessment
• Focus-Adequately describes chosen era
• Support-Includes pictures, graphics, visuals and
  descriptions of theater at the time
• Organization-Project is logically structured
• Style-Project is creative and interesting
• Conventions-All group members participated in the
  presentation. Presentation was free from errors.

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Evaluation

• Your scale model is worth 100 points.
• Areas of Assessment
• Historical accuracy
• Creativity/Ingenuity

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Conclusion

• What similarities did you discover between your
  historical period and the drama of today?
• Now that you have researched
• theater history, you should have a better
  understanding of how different theater styles
  impact contemporary actors, TV shows, movies and
  plays.