Course Description

This elective helps students improve their English while preparing to perform on stage as well as develop a basic knowledge of acting.  Students will learn such skills as characterization, expressing emotion, projecting voices so that others can hear them, body movement, and facial expression, learning stage directions as well as becoming familiar with improvisation. Students in this elective will perform a series of short plays and improvisations for the final project.  Classes are 2 hours long, taught once a week, for 6 weeks.