| Content Provider | | HEC-TV  2007-08 Honorable Mention |
| Contact Information | | Helen Headrick
utilization@hectv.org
3655 Olive St
St Louis, MO 63108
United States
Phone: (314) 531-4455
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| Program Type | | Individual Program |
| Program Rating | | This program has not yet been evaluated. |
| Target Audience | | Education: Grade(s): 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 |
| Maximum Number of Participants | | For optimum interactivity, we recommend no more than two classes combined. |
| Minimum Number of Participants | | There is no minimum number required for participation. |
| Primary Disciplines | | Fine Arts, Language Arts/English, Performing Arts |
| Secondary Disciplines | | Career Education |
| Program Description | | How do you adapt the timeless story of “The Giver” to be “seen by an audience” rather than “imagined by a reader?” How do you take a world without color and music from the page to the stage? Meet the directors, designers, actors and technical staff from Metro Theater Company who are answering those questions and more as they stage their upcoming production of the play based on Lois Lowry’s novel.
Lois Lowry’s Newberry Medal winning novel The Giver continues to be read and loved by thousands of young people each year. In this final of a series of four HEC-TV Live! programs focusing on the novel, students will have the unique opportunity to join us live from the stage of the Edison Theatre on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis where Eric Coble’s adaptation is being staged. See the set. View a scene from the production. Meet director Carol North and members of the design team to discuss how the show came to life from the first phase of design to the final phase of implementation. View the lights, the costumes, and the scenery. Ask your questions of actors about how they formulated and performed their character. How would you choose to illustrate the themes of the story through a stage design and directorial point of view? Compare your ideas to those of the Metro Theater Company and Edison Theatre staff staging this new production.
Have your students read the book this year? Will you be reading it later? Are you interested in your students better understanding the work of theatre professionals and how a story is translated through their eyes to the eyes of an audience member? If so, we hope you can join us for this program. Cost for the program is FREE.
This series of programs is being produced in conjunction with Washington University in St. Louis and Metro Theater Company of St. Louis as they prepare and present a stage adaptation of the novel to be presented at Edison Theatre on the campus of Washington University in January.
Other programs in the series have been:
A Conversation with Lois Lowry
The Giver: Issues and Themes
The Giver: Bringing the Characters to Life
All of these programs are archived and available for free on-demand viewing on our HEC-TV website at http://www.hectv.org/programs/ser/hectvlive/ and also on the Higher Education Channel HEC-TV Live! page on iTunesU. |
| Program Format | | The program will focus on the production elements needed to bring Metro Theatre Company and Edison Theatre’s current production of “The Giver” to life. Participants will view a scene from the play, see the set, lights and costumes, and interact with the folks who have done the work. Students will have many opportunities to offer their ideas and ask questions of the theatre professionals throughout the program. You can learn more about Metro Theater Company at http://www.metrotheatercompany.org and more about Edison Theatre at http://edisontheatre.wustl.edu/. Topics for the program are included below. As you’ll note, a central element of this program will include cast members performing a scene from the play. A copy of the scene will be sent to you after enrolling for the program. The videoconference program will consist of the following segments.
1. Welcome and Introduction—Student groups and experts will be introduced and welcomed to the program.
2. Background of the Play—Important elements of the style and structure of the play and the book will be explored and compared as we create a context for the choices made for this current production of “The Giver.” Students will be asked for their ideas about how they might stage certain events of the story’s plot, or certain elements of the story’s theme and setting. For example, how might they stage a “colorless world?”
3. Role of the Director and Designers—We’ll discuss the process of creating a successful stage play through the eyes of the eyes of the various technical designers on the show. We’ll look at scene design and staging choices, lighting design and implementation, and costume design and construction. Students will be able to ask questions of these professionals about the choices they made for this production and why those choices were made, about life as a professional theatre designer, and training and experience needed for the career.
4. Discussion of the Scene to be Performed—We’ll investigate the text of the scene to be performed as well as plot, time period, etc. of the story itself. Students will be asked for their ideas about the scene, the characters in it, possible ideas for staging and blocking the scene, and be able to ask questions of the play’s producer, actors, and designers about their ideas on the scene. A copy of the scene will be sent to you once you have enrolled for the program.
5. Performance of the Scene—Students will watch the scene being performed as it will be staged by Metro Theater Company. Students will be able to ask questions of the actors and director about the scene and offer their ideas as well. Students will also have a chance to see the set, lighting and costumes involved in the scene and respond to those elements as well.
6. Closing Segment--Including summary of topics discussed and final questions from students. |
| Objectives | | 1. The participant will explore the process of staging a play from its selection through casting and design development to rehearsal, construction and implementation of technical elements, and performance.
2. The participant will engage in a discussion about the collaboration necessary to successfully stage a production and explore choices made by those collaborators involved in producing, directing, acting, and technically designing (lights, costumes, scenery) Metro Theater Company and Edison Theatre’s production of “The Giver.”
3. The participant will interact with professional theatre performers and technicians, watch a scene in performance, and engage in critical evaluation of the script, characterization, direction, and technical elements. |
| National Standards to which this program aligns | | English/Language Arts
Standards Developed by International Reading Association and National Council of Teachers of English
2. Students read a wide range of literature from many periods in many genres to build an understanding of the many dimensions (e.g., philosophical, ethical, and aesthetic) of human experience.
3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, and graphics).
8. Students use a variety of technological and information resources (e.g., libraries, databases, computer networks, and video) to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.
11. Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities.
12. Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information).
Theatre
NA 5-8.3 Designing by developing environments for improvised and scripted scenes
Students analyze improvised and scripted scenes for technical requirements
NA5-8.7 Analyzing, evaluating, and constructing meanings from improvised and scripted
scenes and from theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions
Students articulate and support the meanings constructed from their and others' dramatic
performances
Students use articulated criteria to describe, analyze, and constructively evaluate the
perceived effectiveness of artistic choices found in dramatic performances
NA 9-12.2 Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in
improvisations and informal or formal productions
Students analyze the physical, emotional, and social dimensions of characters found in dramatic texts from various genres and media
NA 9-12.3 Designing and producing by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions
Students analyze a variety of dramatic texts from cultural and historical perspectives to
determine production requirements
NA9-12.5 Researching by evaluating and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices
Students identify and research cultural, historical, and symbolic clues in dramatic
texts, and evaluate the validity and practicality of the information to assist in
making artistic choices for informal and formal productions
NA9-12.7 Analyzing, critiquing, and constructing meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions
Students articulate and justify personal aesthetic criteria for critiquing dramatic texts and events that compare perceived artistic intent with the final aesthetic achievement
Students analyze and critique the whole and the parts of dramatic performances, taking
into account the context, and constructively suggest alternative artistic choices |
| State/Regional Standards to which this program aligns | | Featured State Standards (Missouri):
Schools from across the country are invited to join in the program. Missouri state standards are provided for Missouri schools since partial funding for this program comes from various Missouri organizations.
Communication Arts Grade Level Expectations
1H: Apply post-reading skills to comprehend and interpret text
• question to clarify
• reflect
• analyze
• draw conclusions
• summarize
• paraphrase
1I Compare, contrast, analyze and evaluate connections between
• information and relationships in various fiction and non-fiction works
• text ideas and own experiences
• text ideas and the world by analyzing the relationship between literature and its historical period and culture
2C Use details from text to analyze character, plot, setting, point of view and development of theme
Theatre
GLE: PP1B8.9-12 Develop and apply skills to communicate ideas through theatrical performances—Acting
Use basic terms of theatre
Use advanced terms of theatre
GLE: PP1D9-12 Develop and apply skills to communicate ideas through theatrical performances—Directing
Evaluate the director’s role in creating a production
GLE: EP1B7.8.9-12 Select and apply theatrical elements to communicate ideas through the creation of theatre—Acting
Identify cue, notes, on/off book, cheat/open out, and cold-reading
Identify ensemble and polish ensemble work
Identify centering, counter-cross, upstaging, emotional memory, motivation,obstacle, objective, tactic, action, pitch, rate, phrasing, volume, tempo, quality, and prepared audition
GLE: EP1B7.8.9-12 Select and apply theatrical elements to communicate ideas through the
creation of theatre—Design and Technical Theatre
Identify technical elements of theatre to represent time and place, establish character, enhance mood and create dramatic environments for improvised or scripted scenes
Identify and apply stagecraft skills
GLE: EP1D9-12 Select and apply theatrical elements to communicate ideas through the creation of theatre—Directing
Define the director’s responsibility to the author’s intent, script, actors, designers,
technicians and the audience
Identify the director’s role in creating a production
Identify the skills necessary to block a scripted scene
GLE: AP1A7.8.9-12 Develop and apply skills to explain perceptions about and evaluations of theatre and theatrical performance—Analysis and Evaluation
Define the terminology and process of evaluation and apply this process to performances using appropriate theatre vocabulary
GLE: AP1B9-12 Develop and apply skills to explain perceptions about and evaluations of theatre and theatrical performance—Personal Preferences
Articulate, justify and apply personal criteria for critiquing dramatic texts and performances
GLE: HCC2A7.8 Develop and apply skills necessary to understand cultural diversity
and heritage as they relate to theatre—Cultural Diversity and Heritage
Examine and compare characteristics of theatrical works from various cultures throughout history
GLE: HCC2B7.8.9-12 Develop and apply skills necessary to understand cultural diversity and heritage as they relate to theatre—Careers
Compare and contrast selected occupations in theatre |
| Program Length | | 60 minutes |
| Dates/Times | | | Program Date | Program Time | Network Time | Registration Deadline | | All times below are displayed in Eastern Standard Time, as specified in your profile. | | 1/5/2011 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 12/22/2010 | |
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| Connection Type(s) Available and Program Fees | | Interactive Cost: $0.00
View Only Cost: $0.00
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| Program Fee Notes | | There is NO CHARGE for this program. |
| Cancellation Policy | | Since there may well be a waiting list for interactive participation, we ask that you let us know of your need to cancel as soon as you know. |
| Is recording allowed? | | No |
| The Provider broadcasts over | | IP
Internet 2
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| Minimum Technology Specifications for sites connecting to this provider | | This program will be bridged through our state bridging agency, MOREnet. When you register for the program, please include the IP address of the VC unit you’ll be using to connect to the program. This information is needed to send to MOREnet to arrange your test call with them prior to the program. A validation test call MUST be made unless you have already connected with us this school year using the same IP you are using to connect to this program. As part of the confirmation you’ll receive after we get your registration and IP information, we’ll send you the details for the test call with MOREnet. |
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