Monday November 23, 2014

Monday, November 23, 2014

Warm-Up & Vocal Flexing & Improvisation
 

Game #1: Silent Screams

(All participate. Sit in round.  No sound. Purpose is to feel emotion with your whole body.) 

• Scream with your toes.
• Scream with your eyebrows. 
• Scream with your eyes.
• Scream with your back.
• Scream with your stomach.
• Scream with your legs.
• (Now--Volunteer ideas) 
• Scream with your whole body.
• Scream out loud.

Game #2: Silent Tension Scenes

(Pairs participate.  In front of the group.  Purpose is to experience the nonverbal tension of a scene)

• Miner's family waiting for news after a mineshaft disaster.
• Elderly couple hearing a burglar downstairs
• Two sweethearts who have just broken their engagement
• A mother seeing her teenage child for the first time whom she gave up for adoption 

Game #3: Beatnik Poetry

(Triads participate.  In front of the group.  Lined up. Purpose is to collaborate and create a poem based on two subjects.)

• A Tennis ball & A tadpole
• A Peach & The World Cup
• A Sharpened pencil & Brigadeiro
• A question mark & A microphone
• A stopwatch & A kiss

new! FINAL DEBATE UNIT

To Start: Philosophical Chairs

• Set Ground Rules/Norms for our Debates
• 4 Philosophical Chairs Resolutions Provided (#1 & #2 we will write on and #3 & #4 we will verbally debrief--and see the public link)

1. Men can care for children as well as women

2. The right to die is a fundamental human right 
4. It is justified to require males at 18 to be put on the draft list for military service to their country.

5. It is unfair to have children if you cannot afford them.

Debate Teams & Structure