teresamarchinek@yahoo.com

  Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

360.303.4798

Possible Curricular Ties:

• Language Arts (Reading, Fluency, Speech, Literature, Communication).
• Social Studies (Cultural studies, History).
• Science (Human systems of sound and projection).
• Social Emotional Health (Confidence, Social connection , Problem solving, Team building).

 

Sample Residency Topics:

• Introduction to public speaking skills through the creative guise of theater performance in the classroom.
• Purposeful focus on reading comprehension, reading aloud and fluency.
• Exploration of body movement, voice projection and consistent fluency practices.
• Evaluation of vocabulary choices, structure of language and rhetorical techniques like metaphor and humor.
• Cognitive awareness of self regulation, maintaining focus and time management.
• Clarification of content in order to convey meaning.
• Audience awareness and active listening. Emphasis on nurturing face to face communication skills in the digital world we live in.
• Social and Emotional guidance of managing interactions, turn-taking, assessing behavioral choice and response relationships and most importantly, confidence in speaking and communicating ideas from various forms of literature to a variety of audiences.

 

Sample Residency Description:

Through a series of short plays, silly costumes and theater games students will explore the basic concepts of public speaking; body movement, voice projection and fluency, while creatively learning the art of bringing stories to life. Through content interpretation, acting skills and team building, while building confidence and improving their ability to read aloud and communicate content the students will both collaboratively and independently be able to enter a room with composure and confidence. Acting out a play while reading from a script, the meaning of the story through voice and body will convey, interact and engage with the audience, signify the end of their performance, and exit the room with grace.

 

EARL Focus:

1.1 Understands and applies theater concepts and vocabulary

1.2 Develops theater skills and techniques

1.4 Understands and applies audience conventions in a variety of settings

2.1 Applies creative process to theater

2.2 Applies a performance process to theater

2.3 Applies a responding process to performance and presentation of theater

3.1 Uses theater to express feelings and present ideas

3.2 Uses theater to communicate for a specific purpose

4.4 Understands how theater influences and reflects cultures, place and time

Teresa Marchinek

   360.303.4798

 teresamarchinek@yahoo.com