This course will provide intensive work in vocal skills and characterization. Students will be responsible for putting on the fall and spring plays. Some hours will be required outside of class time for production work

Prerequisite: Theater Arts I and audition only (one two minute monologue) and teacher approval.

Main Topics:

• Skit preparation
• Theatre Vocabulary
• Critics
• Improvisational Theater
• Technical aspects of production
• Build Set
• Strike Set

Main Learning Strategies:

• Group discussions, group and individual projects, lecture, stage performance, and theater games.

Assessments:

There is no set number of points at which we will arrive by the end of the semester. Grades can be determined dividing the number of points possible by number accumulated. For example if we had 245 points, and the student achieved 220, the students percentage would be 89.8% The chart below will be the basis for determining student’s grades.

• 98-100 A+
• 93-97 A
• 90-92 A-
• 87-89 B+
• 83-86 B
• 80-82 B-
• 77-79 C+
• 73-76 C
• 70-72 C-
• 67-69 D+
• 63-66 D
• 60-62 D-
• 59 & Below F

Point totals for assignments are at the discretion of the instructor and will be announced at the time the assignment is given.