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WELCOME

In the following slides you will find the lesson plans, training videos, and lesson materials for the THE COLOR OF SOUND workshop. All physical material can be found in the backpack. Please make a COPY of this slide presentation, as it’s view only.

Lesson Plans can be accessed HERE

SCCCR Standards can be accessed HERE

Visual Arts Connection can be accessed HERE

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DEMONSTRATION VIDEO

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Setting the Sound

Talk about the main settings of the book and Rosie’s initial reaction to each one. Which music matches each setting the most?

This activity is subjective and the class should discuss why they chose the way they did!

Settings

Grandma and Grandpa's house

The Pool

The Library

The Shed

Rosie’s school

What other ones can you add either from the book or from your own life?

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Introduction in Tone

Tone is the writer's attitude or feeling about the subject of his/her text. It is the emotional atmosphere the writer tries to create.

Because the author doesn’t have control over how someone says what they have written, they sometimes add cues before the phrase such as “mumbles, emphatically, angrily, slowly” to give the reader a clue on how the character is feeling.

Aggressive, mocking, pessimistic, and playful are just a few examples of tone!

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What tone is this?

“You cannot make a mistake in improv. When there’s no script, nothing is a mistake. Right? Back me up here, boys.”

“What is it with you and throwing away everything you’re good at? Do you know how lucky you are? And you’re just giving it up.”

“There are no other things about me! That’s the thing. The only thing. And that’s the problem!”

“The brown mustiness of the shed, the door’s silver squeak, the pink auras in the skylight are all just as they were last summer. Inside, it’s still, and I feel the emptiness shimmer like an overture. It’s gold and soft, and I see that the sheet music I left is gone. But in it’s place is a canvas, about three feet tall. It faces the wall, leaning up against it, and when I turn it around, I almost cry.”

As a class, discuss each section and decide the tone for each.

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What are you REALLY saying?

Make sure you are basing your acting choices on the music that’s playing!

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Music in Motion

Play the various clips provided and move throughout the room.

Everyone should focus on themselves and no one else.

After each clip, discuss how the music made you feel and how your movements change from one song to the next.

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Rosie’s Family Tree

Grandma Florence

Grandpa Jack

Mom/Young Shoshanna

Dad

Rosie

Vienna

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Questions: Please reach

out with any questions to:

Serenity Jones

Sjones@charlestonstage.com

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