Class 7
Monday, January 21, 2019

We start to explore our resonators.

We start to play with verbs more explicitly.

We dive into rhetoric (even though, Surprise: We technically started into it last Friday!).

Specifically, we look at how Shakespeare used rhetorical techniques to describe things.

Learning Objectives:

  • Discovering our chest, throat, and mouth resonators
  • Learning to apply verbs
  • Reviewing adverbs and adjectives
  • Discovering metaphor and simile in Shakespeare
  • Reviewing comparison in general
  • Revealing imagery in Shakespeare
  • Discovering contradiction and paradox
  • Discovering this and that and juxtaposition
  • Finding out about Personification

By the end of class the student should be able to complete the first column of Section D2 of the written assignment.

Procedure
Attendance and Games
  • Hook up TV
  • Approve Group 4

TIME

1:00 pm
1:05 pm
5 minutes
105 minutes remaining

Warm-Up
Focus on Breath
  • Michael Kaplan will show us a video about how our breath works and the voice is produced.

TIME

1:05 pm
1:25 pm
20 minutes
85 minutes remaining

Exercise
Grounding Exercise
  • The tip-toe diver grounding exercise
  • Other exercises if time permits

TIME

1:20 pm
1:25 pm
5 minutes
85 minutes remaining

Practice
Speech Work

Still to be covered (by the end of day today):

Metre

  • Suggestions to slow down
  • Watch out for:
    • monosyllabic words all in a row
    • things that are hard to say fast
    • adjacent sounds at end of one word and the beginning of the next
  • Missing words
  • Contracted words
  • Elongates words

Rhetoric (Sound):

  • Alliteration
  • Assonance
  • Consonance
  • Rhyme
  • onomatopoeia

Rhetoric (Descriptive):

  • metaphor
  • simile
  • comparison
  • imagery
  • contradiction/paradox
  • this and that/juxtaposition
  • personification

Stanisklavski:

  • Objective
  • Moment before you speak

Questions for readers:

  • Who are you speaking to?
  • Why do you have to say what you say?
  • Where are you?
  • What time is it?
  • What just happened?
  • What are you doing?
  • What is that situation like – is it like something in your life?
  • Basic action
  • Essential action

TIME

1:50 pm
2:35 pm
45 minutes
15 minutes remaining

Plans For Another Day

Handout
Speech Written Assignment
  • Hand out and review the speech assignment

TIME

2:35 pm
2:50 pm
15 minutes
0 minutes remaining

Practice
Entrance and Exit
  • The entrance and exit exercise
  • 5 minutes to explain
  • 15 minutes to work on it

TIME

1:30 pm
1:50 pm
20 minutes
60 minutes remaining

Game
Chopper
  • The tip-toe diver grounding exercise
  • Other exercises if time permits

TIME

1:25 pm
1:30 pm
5 minutes
80 minutes remaining

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