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- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students consider various components of theater such as movement, voice, staging, ensemble, improvisation, characterization, directing, technical elements and self-concept. They perform in various improvisations and experiment with characterization. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 7th
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Students discover the art of improvisation in music. They review the rules of improvising and then play various percussion and bass instruments on an improvised song. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students watch a video on improvisation. They improvise original melodies over given chord progressions. They develop criteria to evaluate the merits of improvisational performances and apply the criteria in their personal listening and performing. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th - 12th
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Students score written essays and use improvisational skills to administer revisions to those essay. Working in small groups, students review various essays and decide upon a score. Once scored, students brainstorm ideas for improving the essays and present their revisions to the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th
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Students participate in dance improvisations that concentrate on space, shape and theme. Students write reflections on the improvisational process then work in small groups to develop, structure, and rehearse their dance improvisation. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students explore how to develop motifs in the context of a blues scale. They plan and compose a short set of variations on a given musical stimulus. Students investigate how the music of diverse improvisation traditions share common processes and procedures. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students define improvisation. They take part in first-hand improvisational activities through infomercials. Then they apply improvisation to real-life situations as well as reflect on their experiences. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Higher Ed
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Students demonstrate their improvisation skills by participating in various activities and assignments that require students to use their improvisation skills. They demonstrate their understanding of improvisation by observing a professional 'improv' team, and writing a one page "free write" of what they observed. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students perform improvisations in front of their classmates. They have no time to prepare. The object is spontaneity. Their roles and situations are given to them on the spot and they have to react immediately. Students imaginations begin to soar and ensures richer dynamics. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to the concept of improvisation. In groups, they practice improvizing a different scenerio given to them and explore the various ways people communicate with each other. To end the lesson, they reflect on the sessions in their journal. Full Review »
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