Scenario

Your local amateur theater is hosting a festival highlighting several one-act plays that are written and performed by local citizens. In order to be considered for entry in the festival, your group needs to form an acting company to stage your original play.

Task and Product

In addition to the actors and playwright, the following roles within the theater are essential to the production of your one act play:

Each group member is responsible for becoming an expert about one of these roles included in live theater.

After completing your research, you will create a one page career profile about your role to share with your group members. After sharing, each group member will assume the role that best matches their skills and talents.

Assessments

At the conclusion of each day of research, your teacher will choose a Daily Assessment Tool for you to complete.

You will be graded on the one page career profile of the role you researched. See scoring tool below.

Additionally, you will be graded on how well you perform as an actor, playwright and your assigned role.

Question

• What is the job description, salary potential, education, training and union of your assigned career?
• What are the character traits and actions of a successful person in this role?
• What importance does the director, set designer, costume designer, camera operator and critic have on the overall play?

Gather & Sort

Gather information about your role from a variety of sources.

Sort your research findings using this note-taking sheet. You may print this page and hand-write your notes OR you may open it in Word, type your notes, save and print. Use the source area of the note-taking sheet to write the information about the places you found your information. You will need this information to create your Works Cited Page.

To avoid plagiarism, properly paraphrase and quote when taking notes.

Organize

Analyze your research notes to determine if you have answered the first essential question.

Synthesize your findings by selecting information to include in your career profile.

• What new insights have emerged about the role you researched?
• Which facts are the most compelling and would be most appealing to your audience?
• What facts are unnecessary and should be excluded from your career profile?

Evaluate the effectiveness of your research for the task using the following questions:

• Have you gathered sufficient details about your topic?
• Are your details organized in the right categories or sub-topics to make sense for your audience?
• Are you ready to write your finalize your career profile?
  

Conclusion

Career Profile
Create a one page career profile using the actor career profile and the playwright career profile as models for your own career profile. Share it with the other members of your acting company so that all members know the role and responsibilities of each role within the theater.

As your group shares information, decide which role best suits your personality, interest, skills & talent. Analyze the career profiles to answer the second essential question.

As an acting company, complete Best Roles and submit to your teacher.

Extension
In addition to fulfilling the role of playwright and actor, you will be responsible for becoming your chosen role in your one act play.