Poetry, drama and performance
Interpret poems and dramatic scenes by making, comparing and defending choices about language, line, voice, pause and action.
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Preparation: Read a short text more than once. You may speak, read silently, use a text score or work with a partner. No musical notation, acting experience or audio recording is required.
Begin anywhere, skip familiar work or change task depth. Skipping preserves work and does not count as completion.
0/6 investigations completed. Portfolio: not submitted. These records do not certify proficiency.
Lesson sequence
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Make an image audible—or visible on the page
Connect a sensory image and a sound pattern to an interpretive performance choice.
Break a line; change an expectation
Compare lineation choices and distinguish a line ending from a grammatical stopping point.
Let a metaphor do more than one thing
Develop and limit a figurative reading by testing it against the poem’s concrete details.
Give each character something to do
Infer contrasting character objectives and connect a shift in tactic to a dramatic beat.
Keep the words; change the relationship
Compare two staging interpretations of the same dialogue and explain how visible action supports each.
Defend a reading, then change one choice
Create an integrated performance score and revise it in response to a plausible alternative interpretation.
A performance score with critical commentary
Curate a poem and a dramatic scene from the course. Create a coherent text-only or performed interpretation of each, compare an alternative, and defend your choices with the words and structure of the texts.
Course practice consists of the six investigations and the portfolio. The project rubric makes the quality expectations explicit; human review remains separate.
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