Focusing Through Performance: October 25, 2017

Focus: What can we learn about the rising action in Act 3 through performance?

1. Warming up with a good question from Henry (Henry K, not King Henry)

2.  Regrouping and rehearsing with Acting Companies before curtain call (20 min):

a. Please follow the same steps for preparing your Act 3 performance as you did for your Act 1 performance (see handout for details), including a symbolic choice.

b. A new challenge: Give us something specific to focus on as we watch your scene (a guiding question, repetition of a specific word, use of symbolic prop, etc).  When you finish your performance, give us one follow-up question that you relates to what you asked us to focus on.  In other words, you're providing us an analytical frame for your performance.

Example:
  
Focus: As you watch Hal's speech from Act 1, note his physical movements as he delivers his soliloquy.

Follow-up: How did his movements parallel the significant shifts in his speech?

3. Enjoying your Act 3 performances with a pre-viewing focus and post-viewing question

HW:
If wish to EDIT on Friday, complete the rough draft of your sonnet essay before class on Friday, October 27.

If you wish to WRITE on Friday, complete at least half of your draft before class on Friday, October 27.

Either way, put your draft in www.turnitin.com  by Monday, October 30 (see website or handout for overview and sample). Your draft grade will be worth 20 points in "Other Writings and Activities." It will simply be a completion grade (points will only be deducted for missing portions or late work).