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Working with acting Companies and Focus Groups
aCTIVITy 4.18
Learning Targets
• Analyze a dramatic character to inform a performance.
• Collaborate to draft and implement a performance plan.
Character Focus Groups
1. Players: Reread your lines, using the graphic organizer to guide a close reading
and analysis of your character.
Meet in a focus group, whose members are all acting as the same character, and work collaboratively to interpret what the lines reveal about your character. Take turns sharing your indivudual analysis and add new insights to the graphic organizer.
I am playing:
Aspects of Characterization
Detail from Text
Interpretation
What does this reveal about the character?
Appearance
Actions
Words
Thoughts/Feelings
Unit 4 • The Challenge of Comedy 333
learNING sTraTeGIes:
Rereading, Close reading, Note-taking, Discussion Groups, Rehearsal
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