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Stage Management is a technical theatre element that traditionally is for the leaders and organized students in your class. Why? Because it involves paperwork, reading, focusing, and taking charge of other students. But Don't Worry! I added the fun and creativity to these lessons to keep your students focused for a 5+ day Unit! The pros to Stage Management is that you can integrate Reading, Writing, and Public Speaking strategies into your activities creating a well rounded student. This bundle

Theatre Lighting is a beautiful element for shows, and sometimes the last thing teachers plan, so let the students thrive and be the lighting designers! No theatre? No Problem! I explain ways to learn lighting with or without a theatre space. Included: - Powerpoint presentation introducing lighting, instruments, hang and focus, color, angles, and electricity. - An M & M activity - A Flashlight activity. Feedback always welcomed, thank you!

Don't worry about your first days in the theatre shop! This Bundle will safely introduce your students to the hardware, tools, and supplies used in the theatre shop. There are a variety of videos samples, small math problems, step by step visuals for the 2 activities, and an added online (or field trip) Hardware store activity. This Bundle includes the following TPT lessons:- Hardware, Tools, and Materials Presentation - Tool Supply Organization Activity - Create a Mini Flat Activity - Hardware

Here is a bundle from an introduction to an advanced Theatre Counterweight and Rigging System! Don't be afraid if you don't have a true theatre system. I have included activities for schools with and without a full theatre. All together, these lessons could take 1 week to 1 and 1/2 weeks. Enjoy!

If you aren't ready for your theatre students to use power tools to build quite yet, here is a nice introduction to measuring and cutting lumber. The end result will be students making a mini 4 inch by 8 inch theatre flat. (Real life flats are traditionally 4ft by 8 ft.) Print the handout exactly or else the measurements will be slightly off. You can test this out by printing and measuring the large rectangle plywood piece, which should be 4 inches by 8 inches. You can find the exact steps and

This worksheet goes along with the Intro to Technical Theatre Powerpoint. It is the conclusion as we compare technical theatre with our everyday lives.

If you are just introducing your students to theatre lighting, and maybe you don't have your own stage lighting, this is a fun 1 class period activity! Using flashlights, gel books or gel sheets, a dark space, given images, and a worksheet, you can have students pretend to be a designer before they go and break a light instead of a leg. Included is the worksheet, directions, and a variety of images.

Integrate close reading along with a short comedic theatre script to engage your students in the subject of Theatre Stage Management. This assignment comes with the directions, the short script, as well as the blank worksheet to complete. One of the first steps a Stage Manager does is read the script for a show and gather technical information on that show. This assignment is the first of 3 assignments in the Introduction to Theater Stage Management Presentation. Check out the Stage Management B

Heading to the shop, and want your students to follow along with steps to using shop power tools? The Job Operations Sheets are perfect for you all! The Circular Saw is a great tool for students to learn if you do not have a table saw. Have them practice using the saw as they follow along with these steps. The steps include: Preparation, Operation, and Clean up. They are easy to follow along and have a few suggestions and hints. Check out the other tool paperwork such as: Table Saw, Drill, Jigsa

Props in theatre and film are small, yet a valuable piece of a performance. This worksheet goes along with the Theatre Props lesson. These 2 pages have students discuss and investigate the difference between scenery props, hand props, set dressing, and costume props. Hopefully the war of "is this a prop or a costume?" is over... plot twist, it never is over.

One of the biggest assignments for a Stage Manager of a theatre production is putting together the final script with show cues. In this assignment, your students will practice with an eleven-page scene in a theatre show. They are given the lighting, sound, and PowerPoint cues to place into the given scripts. This assignment can be extended by having students practice calling the cues to the given YouTube video as if they were actually the Stage Manager. This is the 3rd and final assignment as p

One of the most challenging topics in theatre is Rigging (the items above our head and how to hang scenery). It is a topic CTE tests wants you to teach, but there aren't any classes out there to learn from. This is an introduction powerpoint to rigging supplies, set up, videos, and activities. If you do not have any of the correct rigging supplies, there are still 2 activities you can participate in to learn. Worksheets to also purchase: - Hardware Image Activity-- If you do not have rigging

Add a fun silly day to your Stage Manager unit by having students fill out a pretend Contact Sheet. This is the 2nd assignment as part of the Introduction to Theatre Stage Management Presentation. Students will walk around the room, talk to other students, have a laugh, and will practice gathering information for a Theatre Contact Sheet. If you want all 3 assignments, an intro activity, and the Introduction to Theatre Stage Management Presentation, find the Stage Management Bundle with all thes

This Stage Management activity is a starting point to the Intro to Stage Management Presentation. Students will immerse themselves into some of the sample documents that Stage Managers make, and with the Stage Manager bundle, will make a few of their own documents as they pretend to be the Stage Manager for a show.

So, it is your first day teaching tools and hardware, but you don't want to put the dangerous tools into your student's hands quite yet. I absolutely get it! Here is a 1 day activity to have them see the tools, discuss the purpose and actions of the tools, but not have access to the trigger quite yet. Cut up and use pictures of tools and hardware to organize and label. If you need a PowerPoint lesson, check out the Shop Tools PowerPoint, as well as Job Operation Sheets for how to use the tools.

This handout goes with the Theater Rigging PowerPoint. This is one of 2 lessons for schools that do not have proper rigging supplies.