(35-496-M) Schedule Fall 2005 (subject to change as needed)

WEEK 1   Introduction and course overview and assignments – acting process 
Aug 29     ACTIVITY: warm-ups, improves, video Miracle Worker (1961); scene excerpt MW 
                DISCUSS: overview of acting, dramatic structure/story/characters James Cameron's Titanic, 
                ASSIGN: Read CH Intro, 1-2, Journal 1 

WEEK 2    ACTIVITY: Improv, Scene excerpts
Sep 12     DISCUSS: CH Intro, 1-2, Journal 1
                ASSIGN: CH 3-4, Journal 2 

WEEK 3    ACTIVITY: Improv, Scene excerpts
Sep 19     DISCUSS: CH 3-4, Journal 2
                ASSIGN: CH 4-5, Journal 3
 
WEEK 4    ACTIVITY: Choose scenes
Sep 26     DISCUSS: CH 4-5, Journal 3 actual ch 4-7
                ASSIGN: Read CH 6-7, Journal 4

WEEK 5   ACTIVITY: Auditions, Scene studies
Oct 3       DISCUSS: CH 6-7, Journal 4
               ASSIGN: CH 8-10, Journal 5

WEEK 6   ACTIVITY: Rehearsal
Oct 10     DISCUSS: CH 8-10, Journal 5
               ASSIGN: CH 11-12, Journal 6

WEEK 7  ACTIVITY: Rehearsal
Oct 17     DISCUSS: CH11-12, Journal 6
7:30pm   ASSIGN: CH 13-14, Journal 7

WEEK 8  ACTIVITY: Head shot photos, Rehearsal
Oct 24    DISCUSS: CH 13-14 Journal 7
              ASSIGN: Theater Resume, Journal 8

WEEK 9  ACTIVITY: Rehearsal 
Oct 31    DISCUSS: Ch 11-12, Journal 9
              ASSIGN: CH 13-14, Journal 10 (due Nov 14)

NO CLASS ON MONDAY Nov 7 - but meet to see PIPPIN (see below week 10)

WEEK 10  ATTEND: Musical Pippin - Nov 10, 11, 12 at 7pm or 13 at 2pm
Nov 7       ASSIGN: Write a Review of the acting and the show as a whole as Journal 10

WEEK 11  ACTIVITY: View excerpts of Pippin, Rehearsal 
Nov 14     DISCUSS: CH 13-14, Journal 10 (Pippin) Oral Presentation of Paper Due
               ASSIGN: TBA

WEEK 12  ACTIVITY: Rehearsal
Nov 21     DISCUSS: CH 13-14
                ASSIGN: All Journals due 

WEEK 13  ACTIVITY: Final Demonstration Performance (8pm)
Nov 28     ASSIGN: Take-Home, open book Final Exam 

WEEK 14 Final Exam absolutely Due by 7pm –any and all alternative assignments/reviews due Dec 5 

Journals are due the next class after they are assigned-Typed is preferred but may be hand written only if readable