Class 7
Monday, January 20, 2020

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!).

How many As in O?

Freeze

Speech walks:

  • Walking the thought
  • Walking the line
  • Stepping stones
  • Vowels only
  • Consonants only
  • First word Last word

Improv?

  • speech or scene?

Levels of energy?

Action: find your action under the words, and you’ll know what to do with the words.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action…

Pronunciation:

  • ed
  • ion
  • eous
  • statue

Doth = duth, dost = dust

Thou vs You, Thee vs. You, Thine vs Yours, Thy vs. your.

Presentation Order

  1. Erik – Antony | If you have tears
  2. Andrew – Henry V | What’s he
  3. Sydney F. – Anne | Set down
  4. Ryan – Richard II | No matter where
  5. Sydney C. – Helena | Lo she is one

Wednesday:

  1. Emma – Joan | Look on thy country
  2. Keisha – Luciana | And may it be
  3. Yanming – Henry V | Once more unto the breach
  4. Brooklyn – Paulina | What studied torments
  5. Sydney K. – Hermione | Sir, spare your threats

Friday:

  1. Juliane – Cleopatra | No more but e’en a woman
  2. Trevor – Petruchio | Thus have I politicly…
  3. Matthew – Antony | Pardon me…
  4. Trystan – Antony | All is lost!

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

Looking at Iambic pentameter:

Counting syllables.

Short lines versus unfinished lines.  Knowing the difference helps you tell the difference between when Shakespeare is saying “pause” and when he’s saying pick up your cue.

Long lines: disrupt the rhythm, like a container.
11 & weak endings

Examples of regular lines:

In sooth I know not why I am so sad…
Remember it’s relative
Find examples of regular lines in iambic pentameter
Two requirements: 10 syllables and iambic pattern

Optional lines:

If music be the food of love, play on!

Weak endings:

To be or not to be, that is the question…

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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