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Welcome to Acting System Wikispace! We are the acting group, and we will teach you how to become better actors, and how acting affects us all. Here you will fin d your assignments, our work, and acting.

Schedual:

•__Pre-Day Assignment__ -Memorize pre thought out quotes from the book, make a costume, memorize the quotes, present them in class, pre-first day assignment, need to have a rubric for the second day, out of 10 points.

Quality of translation How they express themselves Cleverness (creativity) Diction

-Write a paragraph of interpretation (interpret and translate the reading into modern day speech, write it in a paragraph. Turn it in but isn't going to be presented during class).

•__Day one__ -Powerpoint on Acting and Constatin Stanislavski and Vselvolod Meyerhold (the two methods of acting). -First activity (emotions expressed through ordinary senarios) -The feeling one where they have anger but they talk about dinner or something, contest, have a list of senarios and a list of feelings, so for instance express dinner but with anger, group plans it, with individual expressing it

-anger at dinner -sadness when shopping -envy while making a smoothy -guilt while at church: confession or prayer



__Day two__ perform your chosen lines from Midsummer nights dream and turn in your interpretation. Also have your prop ready.

your performance will be graded out of 5 points (1 point for each)

expression on stage enunciation memorization use of prop other

also your translation will be out of 4 (1 for each)

diction creativity quality of transition relevance of translation

you will also have a point simply for having a prop/costume that relates to your character

if there is more time we will then do the activity: crazy acting snippets Islamic cowboy Elvis Presley rapping Cafeteria Manager who has no taste buds Uptight Surfer Radio announcer with a lisp Spastic DJ