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Teacher Evaluation

INDIVIDUAL PROP

No prop.  Student looks no different than usually does at school.

Prop, but does not add much to performance.  Student going through the motions without putting any thought into it.

Effective prop(s) clearly helps audience understand role/context of actor.  Prop well chosen to emphasize that which is important in role.

   /10

EXECUTION OF LINES

30 points!

Constantly looking to text, unable to pronounce words or deliver lines with appropriate feeling or any inflection at all. Student unable to explain what character is doing or saying.

Delivers lines with some feeling, but student reading rather than acting lines.  NOT ENOUGH PRACTICE!  Student does not understand every line they say.

Lines delivered fluently and effectively.  Student brings role to lie by acting out the language on the page and interacting with other characters energetically and appropriately, as would occur naturally in real life.  Student completely understands every word they say.  

/30

ARTISTIC INTERPRETATION

Group makes no effort to set scene in modern context.  Minimal effort.

Effort made to place scene in modern context, but it is not very believable: it looks like you are in school still acting for English class!  Not “natural.”

Unique interpretation of text places events from the Renaissance in a modern context that is completely believable.  Creativity and effort are obvious.  Any teenager in Ventura would recognize this scenario.  Audience forgets actors are actually in English class at the time of performance.

   /5

OVERALL GROUP GRADE

Reading play instead of acting it out – and reading it badly.  Group bores audience.

Group performs scene but depend on reading lines from text more than acting it out.  MORE PREPARATION  NEEDED! 

Group brings Shakespeare’s language in “Romeo and Juliet” to life; roles are thoroughly practiced; acting shows insight and understanding of text – action is “natural.”

      /5

Total Points:

     /50