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Unit One - Introduction to Drama
Module 1: Basic Skills
Lesson 2 - Impulse

Introduction:
The purpose of the lesson is to examine the role of impulse in acting. By the end of the lesson, actors should be able to make a line "feel real".


Objectives:
- to concentrate during dramatic experiences
- to participate in drama experiences
- to find emotional impulse

Resources:
Creating an Emotional Response, pdf


CELs:
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Components: Critical/Responsive, Creative/Productive


 

Read the handout on Emotional Response and do the journals. Following the journal time divide your class into partners to begin the class activities. (20 min.)

Activities:

Each person will try three lines: "I hate you", "I love you", and "I feel sad":

1) recall the emotion
2) feel the emotion out of the context it happened in
3)
find the impulse to say the line because of the emotion

It is important that the students refrain from saying the line until they feel the emotional impulse to do so. Each line will need to be said multiple times before the impulse and magnification of the emotion are real for the audience. The job of the partner is to keep saying "again, please" until the line is said in a manner that is impacts emotionally. When the partnership has succeeded in this process with all three lines, they switch jobs (30 min. +).


Instructional Strategies: Reflective Studies, Role Playing

Evaluation: Students evaluate quality of the emotional response their partners express.

On-line Activity Alternatives: Journals can be done through e-mails and attachments, or in some platforms, in a student hand-in section. The partner activity would be done the same way in the remote locations and evaluated by the partner. The students could then e-mail the teacher with how the assignment went.

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