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  • 1.  Playwright Presentation Rubric

    Posted 01-29-2018 05:51
    Does anyone ever have their students present speeches on famous playwrights? If so, do you have a rubric? Thank you!

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    Taylor Horne
    Upper School Theatre Director
    Jacksonville FL
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  • 2.  RE: Playwright Presentation Rubric

    Posted 01-29-2018 12:55
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    Not speeches, but we've done "great playwright" projects, which I assigned to the students in pairs.

    Part one was doing some research and creating a poster about their playwright, which they presented lesson-style to the class. 

    Part two was to find and prepare a two character, two-to-five minute scene from the work of that writer, and perform it after teaching their poster.

    I'm attaching the rubric, if it's at all helpful.

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    Josh Kauffman
    Teacher
    Winfield AL
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  • 3.  RE: Playwright Presentation Rubric

    Posted 01-29-2018 13:33
    This is great! Would you be willing to share any materials you give to the students? I plan on using this idea before the year is out!

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    Ken Buswell
    Drama Teacher
    Peachtree City, GA
    http://mcintoshtheater.org/

    Theater kills ignorance
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  • 4.  RE: Playwright Presentation Rubric

    Posted 01-29-2018 14:25
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    Sure - here's the assignment sheet I gave them to set them up. Let me know if you have any questions, and (of course) feel free to tweak according to your need.

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    Josh Kauffman
    Teacher
    Winfield AL
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  • 5.  RE: Playwright Presentation Rubric

    Posted 01-30-2018 23:23
    This is great, Josh! Thank you!

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    Taylor Horne
    Upper School Theatre Director
    Jacksonville FL
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  • 6.  RE: Playwright Presentation Rubric

    Posted 01-31-2018 07:56
    Do you have a list that the students choose from?

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    Ken Buswell
    Drama Teacher
    Peachtree City, GA
    http://mcintoshtheater.org/

    Theater kills ignorance
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  • 7.  RE: Playwright Presentation Rubric

    Posted 01-31-2018 09:16
    I compiled a list of possible playwrights they could use, yes, but they didn't choose them. I put the names into the Urn of Destiny (I have a beat-up old spittoon we use to draw random partners and projects) to randomly assign playwrights to the students.

    Among the playwrights I assigned:

    • Eugene O'Neill
    • August Wilson
    • Henrik Ibsen
    • David Mamet (had to be really careful picking scenes, of course)
    • Wendy Wasserstein
    • Noel Coward
    • Oscar Wilde
    • Tennessee Williams
    • Arthur Miller
    • George Bernard Shaw
    • Sam Shepard
    • Neil Simon

    What other names would you use? It's been a couple years since we did this project, and it's ripe for a repeat.

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    Josh Kauffman
    Teacher
    Winfield AL
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  • 8.  RE: Playwright Presentation Rubric

    Posted 01-31-2018 13:30
    I like the urn of destiny! 

    If we go all-american, I might add Thornton Wilder, Edward Albee, and , on the more recent side, Suzan Lori Parks, Sarah Ruhl (though one of her plays could be problematic!), Lynn Nottage and Tracy Letts.

    Thank you for this! I might end up doing this will all three levels this year.

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    Ken Buswell
    Drama Teacher
    Peachtree City, GA
    http://mcintoshtheater.org/

    Theater kills ignorance
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