Dramatic Arts II.A: Advanced 2011-2012
Ryan C. Tittle
Email: rctittle@jefcoed.com
Teacher Website: http://pinsonvalleyhigh.jefcoed.com/Teachers/rctittle/Pages/default.aspx
Description: An intermediate and advanced-level course dedicated to the dramatic art of
theatre, with specializations in musical theatre, Shakespeare, film, and television.
Classroom Rules
1. Be prepared
2. Be on time
3. Be respectful
Materials
Binder or Folder, with Paper
Dividers: Play/Film Log, Acting Notes, Directing & Producing Notes
Pen/Pencil
Grades
50 % Tests
30% Quizzes
20% Daily
Absences/Make-Up Work
You are responsible for any materials and assignments missed during an absence.
Make-Up work is due the day you return to class.
Resources
PVHS Theatre Home page:
http://pinsonvalleyhigh.jefcoed.com/Teachers/rctittle/Pages/default.aspx
Leaving the Room
Only 1 allowed at a time.
Musicals List (will be provided)
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!*
Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate
Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun
Boch-Harnick’s Fiddler on the Roof
Lehrner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady*
Kander and Ebb’s Chicago
Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street*
Lloyd Webber and Hart’s The Phantom of the Opera
*Indicates video will be shown; film Okalhoma & My Fair Lady; Stage Version of Sweeney
Play Viewing Requirement
Students must attend all performances given by PVHS Theatre—
Children of a Lesser God
10/15/11 @ 7pm, 10/16/11 @ 2pm & 7pm
PVHS Theatre Festival One-Acts
2/17/12-2/18/12 @ 7pm
Nunsense
4/13/12-4/15/12 @ 7pm
The following Monday after a performance, a 1 pg. response to the material is due.
General Outline of the Course
Unit
1. Exploration I: Acting, Self-Awareness, Ensembles, Movement, Pantomime
2. Exploration II: Voice, Improvisation, Storytelling
3. Exploration III: Directing & Producing
4. Musicalization I: The Tin Pan Alley & Early Musicals
5. Musicalization II: The Golden Age of American Musicals
6. Musicalization III: Mega-Musicals and the Future
7. Shakespeare I: Advanced Language and Diction
8. Shakespeare II: Scenes from the Bard
9. Specialization I: Film Silent to Contemporary
10. Specialization ii: Television Then and Now
Alabama Course of Study/Cross-Curricular Standards Covered in this Course (in chronological
order)
1. Identify basic elements of theatrical training, including vocalization, kinesthetic,
emotional and intellectual processing. Arts Education SCS 6-12 Level I p. 94
2. Describe the acting process, including memorizing, determining, and enacting
character objectives and motives: listening; and maintain concentration. Arts
Education SCS 6-12 Level I p. 95
3. The student compares and incorporates art forms by analyzing methods of
presentations and audience response for theatre, dramatic media (such as film,
television, and electronic media), and other art forms. Cross-Curricular
Standards Jefferson County Board of Education (Fine Arts- Theater)
4. The student is expected to listen to proficient, fluent models of oral reading,
including selections from classic and contemporary works. Cross-Curricular
Standards Jefferson County Board of Education (Fine Arts- Theater)
5. Explain artistic choices made collaboratively by a group. Arts Education SCS 6-
12 Level I p. 95
6. Explain emotional responses to the whole as well as to parts of a dramatic
performance. Arts Education SCS 6-12 Level I
We have read the skills agenda for Mr. Tittle’s Dramatic Arts I: Beginning class and we
understand all of its contents. If we have any questions, we know to contact Mr. Tittle as soon as
possible.
We also understand the swift return of this skills agenda, signed and dated, constitutes as our first
100 point daily assignment.
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(parent/guardian PRINT & SIGN (date)
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(student’s name) PRINT & SIGN (date)
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Parent/Guardian’s email address REQUIRED
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(teacher’s signature) (date)
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